FREEING GREECE OF REBELS
SMALL AREA HAS YET TO BE PURGED Recd. 9.25 p.m. Athens, Aug. 21. According to a staff spokesman, the Greek Army has reduced General Markos’ “Free Greece” to 20 square kilometres along the Albanian border, says an Associated Press Athens correspondent. This area is being pounded by air force and artillery. A spokesman claimed captured guerrilla equipment in the Purgos area would be sufficient to equip two battalions, but the latest successes didn’t mark the end of the Greek civil war.
The Nationalist authorities believe Markos may strike in the Vitsi sector with men reorganised and equipped in Albania and Yugoslavia, while many pockets of communist resistance remain elsewhere in Greece. Fifteen hundred guerrillas fled into Albania and later re-entered Greece near Vitsi. A general staff communique reported guerrillas started several strong diversionary actions in Macedonia and in central Greece where the guerrillas overpowered the local garrisons.
Eight of Markos’ supporters, whom a oalonika Military Court sentenced to death, were executed- today.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 August 1948, Page 5
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