GREEK VILLAGE SET ON FIRE
COMMUNIST BAND ESCAPES Received Saturday, 11 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 2. Rocket-firing Spitfires swooped on an alleged Communist band, which broke through a cordon and 1 escaped after setting fire to a vil- ' iage north of Larissa, says the Associated Press' Athens correspondent. Greek troops surrounded the , band in the darkness and hrought up heavy weapons while the fighters strafed for seventy minutes. ; The band, however, broke out after j killing six prisoners.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1946, Page 5
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