ON LARGE SCALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 6

ON LARGE SCALE

GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN YUGOSLAVIA ENORMOUS TOLL TAKEN OF AXIS FORCES. MANY SENTENCES IN GREECE FOR “SABOTAGE.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 22. Guerilla resistance in Yugoslavia has developed into large-scale organised warfare against the Axis occupying forces, reports the “New York Times” special correspondent, Mr Gedye, who is now in Ankara.

Operating as an army, the guerillas are reported to control four of Yugoslavia’s most important provinces—Montenegro, Bosnia, Her-

zegovina and Central Serbia.

Hitler has called on Rumania to occupy and annex these areas. The guerillas are inflicting enormous casualties on the German and Italian occupying forces. Rome newspapers have published lists of Italian casualties in Serbia during August which are threefold greater than Italy’s losses in Libya in the same month.

The gallant Greeks are fighting their oppressors with other methods. Athens newspapers publish long lists of names of people sentenced to death for sabotage, aiding and arming Anzac soldiers who are still hiding in Greece and for attacking and damaging the enemy when and where they can. In Crete, civilians, aided by British and Anzac soldiers, are still harrying the occupying forces. They are proving so troublesome that the VicePremier of the Puppet Government, M. Logotetopoulos, has been sent to Ciete to try to restore order. The situation in Rumania is becoming anarchic. General Antonescu has returned from the Russian front to try to stem the rising tide of revolt. Germany has demanded from both Rumania and Hungary fifteen .Army divisions and the surrender of the harvest.