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FIERCE COUNTER-ATTACK BY ITALIANS CONFLICT IN THE COASTAL SECTOR. MUTINY OF ALBANIAN TROOPS. > (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, January 4. The Italians, using German divebombers and many light tanks, launched a desperate counter-at-tack in the coastal sector. The Greeks replied with heavy anti- \ tank fire, destroying several tanks and putting others to flight. Tanks used in the Pogradec area were also unsuccessful. Terrible weather continues along the front, but the fighting is fierce, specially between the coast and Kelcyra. The whole region round Kelcyra and Tepelene is now under the control of Greek fire. An oflicial spokesman in Athens claimed that an Italian counter-at-tack aimed to retake and dominate heights captured by the Greeks above Kelcyra was thrown back with particularly heavy losses. The Greeks allowed waves of Alpini to advance without opposition to within rifle and machine-gun range. Then from al! sides they loosed a hail of fire, supported by 75's. and followed it up by a bayonet charge. • They succeeded in taking the positions from which the Italians attacked. A Greek Ministry of Public Security communique states that all is quiet in the interior of the country. Frontier reports received from Struga state that Albanian troops at Scutari mutinied, killing an Italian captain and seven soldiers, and wounding thirteen. An Albanian officer and ten soldiers were immediately arrested and shot.

A group of Albanian rebels in the village of Lari, central Albania, attacked with hand grenades an Italian genl, rme strong pest, killing two Italians.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 5

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249

HURLED BACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 5

HURLED BACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 5

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