YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15466, 29 September 1943, Page 3

YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS

RECEIVE ALLIED SUPPORT United Press Assn.— By ETectiic Telegraph—Copy right. LONDON, Sept. 25. ' While Yugoslav Chetniks and Croat patriots are fighting desperately to maintain their hold on the Dalmatian coast, the Germans are reported to be pouring reinforcements into the Balkans. It is difficult to get a reliable picture of the situation in Yugoslavia but it appears that the patriot armies have badly breached what military experts consider the probable defence lino along the East Adriatic coast. The patriots held Split and great stretches of the Dalmatian coast. The Berlin radio says that the patriots are receiving supplies by sea. and many Allied officers are aiding them. Axis sources also tacitly admit that the patriots have cut the rail communications between Yugoslavia and Northern Italy by a. statement that seven trains are held up on the lino between Trieste and Yugoslavia. 'Some disbanded Italian troops are aiding the patriots, but to what extent it is impossible to ascertain. It is certain, however, that the patriots have taken over quantities of Italian equipment, which are enabling them to extend their operations. The Daily Telegraph’s military commentator says that the mountainous shores of the East Adriatic, Albania. Greece and the Aegan quadrilateral surely constitute a fiont which the Gormans will still try to re-establish and hold. This front line is at present breached loth in the Balkans and the Aegan and the Germans, reacting violently are pouring in reinforcements because they must re-establish this front at all* costs.