GUERRILLA ACTIVITY
ALBANIA AND JUGOSLAVIA LONDON, Sept. 6. Details of increasing guerrilla activity in Albania and Jugoslavia are reaching London. It is learned from Jerusalem that widespread Albanian guerrilla activity caused the strengthening of the Italian garrisons in Albania to 200,000. Demonstrators throughout the country are demanding the release of 65,000 interned Albanian patriots. Guerrillas killed 2d and wounded 30 Italians near Tirana. They later cut up reinforcements, killing 200. Guerrillas in Cylona killed 20 members of the Gestapo and 250 Italians, and set fire to warehouses. Others dynamited a bridge and destroyed barracks and food stores at Librazhde, in the El Bassan district. The Rome radio, quoting official figures, said that more than 1000 guerrillas had been killed in Western Croatia and large quantities of arms had been seized.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25015, 8 September 1942, Page 3
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