MENACE TO GERMANS
YUGOSLAVS ENTER ITALY LONDON, Sept. 28 The Yugoslav partisans who have driven into Northern Italy are threatening the German rear in Italy. Partisan forces, after crossing the frontier, are reported to be engaged in heavy fighting near the ports of Trieste and Fiume. Allied officers attached to the partisan .forces are acting as advisers. Today’s German communique states: Strong bands in north-eastern Italy and Dalmatia have been encircled and are being wiped out. The communique claims that German troops yesterday stormed and captured Split. It also claims that German battle units landed on Corfu Island -yesterday after the Badoglio troops occupying the island had rejected an ultimatum to surrender German troops, supported by air and naval units, broke the resistance, took prisoner several thousand Italians, and 'quickly occupied the whole island.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22155, 29 September 1943, Page 3
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