STRIFE MUST CEASE
INTERNAL QUARRELS IN GREECE
LONDON, Oct. 22
The commander-in-chief in tht Middle East, General Sir Maitland Wilson, has sent a message to the Greeks warning them against internal quarrels and ordering the strife in Greece to cease. The Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press says this is the first official cognisance of quarrelling between the two group* of guerrillas in the mountains of Greece. Minor fighting between these groups, which apparently is encouraged by the Germans, is the result of different war aims. The fighting has never been on a scale resembling civil war, but it has aided the Germans in that it has sapped energies better employed against the German forces. It may be assumed that the bombing of the main railways from Belgrade to Sofia and Salonika, which began in the last few days, is connected with Field-marshal Smuts’s forecast of still further advances, especially in Southern and South-eastern Europe, this winter. \ The Germans are believed to have some 20 divisions occupying the Balkans.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25365, 25 October 1943, Page 3
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