GARIBALDI DIVISION
FIGHTING IN SLOVENIA Recd.. 7 p.m. Rugby, Oct. 14. The Yugoslav radio, speaking of Italian units operating with the partisans, says that reorganisation of the Garibaldi Division has been concluded and that the division is now fighting in Slovenia. The Italian battalion was in action at Split under two Italian colonels. In Montenegro at first only part of the Venezia Division fought with the partisans, while the rest sided with the Germans. The latter have now gone over to the partisans. It is expected that more Italian units will join the partisan army. The radio says that violent fighting continues in several sectors, ificluding Tusia and in Slovenia and Istria. along the main railway line. German units which attempted to advance on Tusia were repulsed and are falling* back in the direction of Doboj. Units of the First Croat Corps are operating along the railway line between Ouglin and Zagreb. Three hundred Germans were killed and 355 prisoners taken. At Susak German units repeatedly charged Yugoslav positions with tanks and infantry and succeeded in breaking through in the direction of Cirkvenica and Bakar, on the coast north of iume.
In Montenegro partisans captured the important traffic junction of Martine.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 245, 16 October 1943, Page 5
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