LARGE NUMBERS BELIEVED TO HAVE COME FROM ALBANIA AND BULGARIA
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Received Tuesday, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, December 29. The Greek Army's intelligence service claims that the rebels have 19,000 men mobilised against the Government, says Reuter's Athens eorrespondent. They have 10,000 in north-western Greece, the scene of the' present fighting centred on Konitza, 7000 more in Macedonia and the northeast and another 2000 in the rest of the country.
The British United Press cOrrespondent, quoting the same spokesman who gave these figures, says that army intelligence believes that more than 25 per cent. of the guerrillas came from Albania and Yugoslavia and another 12 per cent. from Bulgaria. Rbports of the sighting of an unidentified aireraft over Greek territory sdggest that they are parachuting supplies to the guerillas. Reuter reports that members of the United Nations' Balkans Commission today flew to Janina and from there will travel 30 miles northward to observe the fighting in the Konitza area.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1947, Page 5
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