THE BALKANS
PARTISAN SABOTAGE INCREASING (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) London, Jan. 6. Closer ties between Bulgarian peasants and Communists and increased partisan sabotage are reported from Bulgaria, says Reuter’s Ankara correspondent. There is still no confirmation of the news that the Government was overthrown by a coup d’etat. Yugoslav resistance under General Tito and the help it is receiving from the Allies, together with the results of the Teheran conference, have brought Communists closer to the Agrarian Party. The practical results are that hitherto hostile peasants are now supplying the Partisans, who are estimated to number between 3000 and 7000. The activity of these Partisans last week included the holding up of the Sofia-Plovdiv train three nights in succession, also an attack against a labour camp, resulting in the death of a few Bulgarian policemen.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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134THE BALKANS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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