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ITALIANS IN ALBANIA ACCORDING TO GREEK REPORT. ATTACK ON THREE SIDES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 24. A message from Athens states that fresh Italian troops have been sent into the battle round Tepelene and Kelcyra, where three divisions, normally totalling 50,000 troops, have been slowly locked in a trap. The Greeks are attacking them on three sides. GERMAN UNITS SAID TO BE FIGHTING IN ALBANIA. OTHERS CONCENTRATING IN RUMANIA. NEW YORK, December 24. The Belgrade correspondent of the “New York Times” reports that Yugoslav military circles say German sappers, engineers and other technicians and aviation units are fighting in northern Albania, having been ferried there by air across the Adriatic Sea and across Yugoslavia. A Budapest message says Germany is reported to be concentrating troops at Timisoara and Arad, in north-west-ern Rumania. Between two and three divisions have arr/Ved. It is understood Arad has become the German divisional headquarters of General Hube. The Hungarian railways announced that their schedules arc drastically restricted. CAPTURES BY GREEKS PRISONERS AND EIGHT GUNS TOGETHER WITH MUCH MATERIAL. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 25. A Greek communique stales: “In the course of local clashes we captured prisoners, eight guns and much material.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 5
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