LOCKED IN BATTLE
YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS & NAZIS ALLIED AIRCRAFT TAKING INCREASING PART. VITAL POINTS BOMBED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 5. Allied aircraft from Italy are taking an increasing part in the fighting in Yugoslavia. Travnik, where they attacked enemy troops yesterday, is on the railway 40 miles south-east of Banjaluka, where Yugoslav patriots are locked in battle against the Germans and Croat puppet troops. Doboj also was bombed. It is a rail and river junction, 5 mil4es east of Banjaluka. According to the Yugoslav Liberation Army Headquarters, Patriots are on the offensive along a line from Bosanski Novi and eastward, through Prijedor to Banjaluka, 100 miles north of Split. Allied aircraft bombed German troops near Prijedor two days ago. In Banjaluka street fighting continues. In Eastern Bosnia the German offensive is stated to have been defeated and the lost territory regained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1944, Page 4
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