ITALIAN WARSHIPS GIVE AID

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 6

ITALIAN WARSHIPS GIVE AID

Partisans Cut Railways LONDON, October S. Guerrillas in Slovenia, in a series of daring attacks, have cut nearly all the key railways between Austria and Italy, completely isolating the Germans on the Istrian coast., say dispatches received in Cairo. This is part of the patriots’ efforts to smash the entire German system of vital railway communication in Slovenia, Bosnia and Montenegro. It is reported that two regiments of Czechs have been sent to reinforce the patriots battling in Yugoslavia. Fierce fighting is reported to have taken place throughout the day between Fiume and Trieste. The radio at Bari (in the territory occupied by the Eighth Army) stated that Italian warships are bombarding Ger-man-occupied towns on the Dalmatian coast.

The headquarters of the Yugoslav Army of Liberation state that the towns of Livno and Kupres, 45 miles north-cast of Split, have been captured, and also the northern Croatian towns of Varazdins, Toplice, and Ludbrieg. on the railway near the Hungarian border. Operations are continuing. Offensive operations' arc continuing successfully. The Luftwaffe in central Bosnia is ruthlessly and at random bombing uu-

protected towns and _ villages, causing heavy civilian casualties. The Free Yugoslav radio, defending the veracity of the patriot _ communiques, revealed that American in addition to British liaison officers are with the partisan forces. “Those best able to judge the truth of our communiques and the successfulness of our operations,’ it said, “are the British and American officers who arc with us. They have all the facilities to convince themselves about our campaigns.”