JUGOSLAV PARTISANS
WITHDRAWAL FROM BANJALUKA
HEAVY ENEMY CASUALTIES (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 6. Marshal Tito’s forces have withdrawn from Banjaluka, in Eastern Bosnia, after inflicting 2000 casualties and taking 700 prisoners. , Jugoslav resistance under Marshal Tito and the help it is receiving from the Allies, together with the results of the Teheran conference, have brought the Communists closer to the Agrarian Party. Practical results are that the 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 Sofla-Plovdiv train three nights in succession and an attack against a labour camp resulting in the death of a few Bulgarian policemen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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