STORY OF GUERRILLA RAID
greek villagers fired on Received Monday. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 17. Evangelia Bidga, the twenty-year-old wife of a Greek Army officer, with a machine-gun bullet in her thigh, who was among the flrst woundecl to reach Salonika from Skra, told the Associated Press Salonika correspondent the story of the attack on the village. "We were herded into a straw shed and machine-gunned," she said. "Three of the people of our household were killed and three wounded. Tlien the bandits set fire to the shed, but the straw was wet and the fire went out." She added that she was sent to hospital with her eleven-year-old niece, with six bullet wounds, her eight-year-old nephew, who was shot through the leg and an expectant mother, who had been shot twice. A Greek Army communique issued on November 13 said that 50 men, women, and children, and 43 soldiers were killed in an attack on the village of Skra, in Macedonia, by the band of guerrillas.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1946, Page 5
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