WITHDRAWAL OF GERMANS
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE London, Sept. 25. German troops in south-eastern Europe are withdrawing everywhere, says the British United Press Cairo correspondent. It is believed they eventually will try to reach the historic Danube-Sava-Adriatic line. Many German garrisons in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania pinned down by guerrillas are unable to get away northward. They are always, willing to surrender when they get the chance. The Germans at present are withdrawing from the important western Greek town of Janina to Salonika, but guerrillas are constantly hampering the evacuation. German transport planes continue to carry garrisons from the Greek islands to Athens. Some troops are being kept there to reinforce the Athens garrison and others are being sent to Salonika. The German High Command is nominally in charge of Greece, but guerrillas cut the telephone cables, for which reason most of the Germans were forced to act on their own initiative.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 September 1944, Page 6
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