HEAVY FIGHTING
IN MOUNTAIN AREAS POSITION OF THE GREEKS MUCH IMPROVED. ENEMY MENACED NORTH OF POGRADEC. LONDON, <December 5. According to dispatches received from Struga, the Greeks entered Sarande at 8 a.m. after a short, fierce fight in which they captured 125 prisoners and considerable material, and they have hoisted the Greek and Albanian flags on the prefecture building. Following the capture of Premet, the Greeks have occupied further peaks in the Mokra Mountains. Some of the positions have changed hands several times, but the Greeks have eventually considerably improved their strategic position in that section. The Greeks tonight drove the Italians at the point of the bayonet from the Frasheri mountain range northward of Premet. The Italians’ hopes of preserving the second line of their three lines of defence to the south-east of Premet are gradually crumbling. The British and Greek air forces are completely masters of the situation. The Greek success to the northward of Pogradec is also most important, because it should enable them to cut off the enemy’s retreat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 7
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173HEAVY FIGHTING Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 7
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