NAZIS JOIN GUERRILLAS
DESERTERS WITH YUGOSLAV FORCES London, April 26. According to messages from Yugoslavia, more than 500 German and 1000 Bulgarian deserters are now lighting with General Mikhailovitch’s guerrillas. Reuter reports that nine Italian 1 and six Bulgarian divisions, and one German division, are now being used ' in an attempt to destroy the Yugoslav patriots. They are finding difficulty in making contact with the patriots, though the patriot forces have grown from companies to regiments, and from regiments to divisA new guerrilla force which is gaining strength in Bosnia under . the command of General Dankeitch, ■ a close friend of Mikhailovitch, re- , cently undertook a successful action \ on the outskirts of Sarajevo. Guer- , rillas are also fighting in Albania, ■ but it is difficult for them to main- , tain contact with the Chetnik head-
quarters. The Italians seldom offer resistance against the Chetniks, who strip them of arms and ammunition, and liberate them.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 April 1942, Page 5
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