GREEK ARMY SUCCESSES
Received Saturdav, 10.55. a.m. ATHENS, June 13. The Ministry of Public Order announced that Government for-e-es ambushed and cut to pieces a large force of guerrillas between TTipolis and Ptras killing 45 guerrillas and wounding 55 as they were erossing a shallow stream between the mountains. The guerrillas had just raided Daphne ten miles distant and were laden with booty. Eight gendarmes were killed and three wou'nded. Fifty-two guerrillas were killed in a clash with a military contingent .at Sotira village, 19 miles northwest of Grevena. Twenty battalions of the Greek army with air a_nd_na.val support eai'ly today launched "a new drive against guerrillas around Mount Olympus and on the eastem coast of Greece in ah attem,pt to, cut off about 350?00Q guerrillas.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1947, Page 5
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