ADVANCE ON ELBASAN
PRIVATIONS OF IiRFEK TROOPS ij — ! IN WINDSWEPT AND ICY MOUNTAINS. LACK OF PROPER BOOTS & EQUIPMENT. ißy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. .Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. January 5. Greek troops advancing towards Elbasan are fighting in mountainous country, where packs of wolves and high-circling ravens are the only living things beside the suffering soldiers. Conditions in these windswept, icy mountains must be experienced to be believed. L is a continuous nightmare of frmt-; Pho. Th.- Greek- ate sufferin'?. horribly-: from lack of proper boots and equip-‘ mett. iaty arc wnlk ini; baref nol' aero,■< cno'.v and iee. Amputations as a, i.. i;l; of frostbite ;<r> frequent. Tents ] pitched among snowdrifts aflord prac-■ ■.ically no cover from blizzards yet tlw mall and wiry Greeks mr creeping | dail\ closer to the line where the lial-i i.”ms arc- making frantic last-minute of-} inrw to halt the Greeks. The remnants' of Mussolini's Arezzo. Venezia and: Taura divisions of Bersnglieri are (in-., in on the other side of the mountain- ' •■upporicd by artillery.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 6
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170ADVANCE ON ELBASAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 6
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