PARTISANS MAINTAIN ATTACK

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 9, 6 October 1943, Page 5

PARTISANS MAINTAIN ATTACK

Mikhailovitch Waiting

LONDON, October 4. General Mikhailovitch, the Yugoslav guerrilla leader, has admitted that tie Partisans are the only forces lighting the Germans in Yugoslavia, says "Reynolds News.” The Partisan forces (the People’s Army of Liberation), under General Tito, have been, fighting heavy battles against the Germans. They occupy large stretches of the Adriatic coast and have penetrated into north-east Italy and Austria. “My army has not fought, and will not light, till we get orders,” says General Mikhailovitch. “I am ready to -begin when the Allies give their promised signal. It would be unnecessary spilling of blood to start fighting alone without real Allied help, munitions and materials. I have told the British and the Americans that my army will begin fighting when the first Allied divisions laud in Yugoslavia. 'What we shall then accomplish will completely overshadow the Partisans 1 performances.” A Yugoslav communique states: “Units of the First Bosnian Corps, after 63 hours of violent fighting, captured the biggest and best fortified town in eastern Bosnia, Tuzla, 50 miles cast-north-east of Sarajevo. A large quantity of war material wag captured. Units of the Fifth Corps captured Bialopikje. Slovenian Partisans repulsed all German attacks along the Ljubljana-Gorizia line.”