REBEL RAIDS IN GREECE

Chronicle (Levin), 21 November 1946, Page 9

REBEL RAIDS IN GREECE

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Yugoslav Participation observers reserve report

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Received Thursday, 11 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 10. The British Government has received a dossier from the Greek Government about intervention from Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania in the fighting on the Yugoslav-Greek border. Reuter's Athens' correspondent says that the report of the British and American observers on the rebel attack in the Skra area is reserved on the question of Yugoslav participation, but it is understood the observers consider that no raid on such a scale could have been organised without at least the connivance or acquiescence of Yugoslav frontier guards. Anxiety in Athens The Times Athens' correspondent says that after three days of heavy fighting, Greek Army officers ar'e now fully in control of the Mount Skra area but reports from other areas are causing much anxiety in Athens. In some Macedonian areas the guerrillas are reported to have established so-called "free zones" in which they publish their own newspapers, collect taxes and have their own courts for trying offenees against guerrilla rule. In Anthrakia village where western Macedonian guerrillas have established headquarters, a guerrilla court is reported to have passed the death sentence of 18 persons last week for anti-guerrilla activities. There is widespread feeling, the correspondent says, that the approaching winter weather may hinder the guerrillas' activities, but those who lived in the mountains with the resistance forces during the occupation, know that the winter is likely to hold more disadvantages for the organised military forces than for mountain bands.