SPRING OFFENSIVE
PLANNED BY YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS AMERICAN EQUIPMENT SOUGHT. CONVEYANCE BY PLANES & SUBMARINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, March 28. Colonel Dragutin Savich, chief of the Yugoslav mision, has arrived in the United States to seek lease-lend aid. He said that General Mihailovitch was getting ready for a spring offensive against the Axis with 100,000 patriot troops. Colonel Savich urged that substantial supplies of equipment be sent to General Mihailovitch by cargo parachutes dropped from planes and also by submarines entering the Adriatic to the narrow strip of the Dalmatian coast held by the Yugoslav patriots. Planes could be sent from southern Russia and the Middle East. Colonel Savich declared that if the United Nations would start simultaneous offensives in the Near East throughout the Mediterranean area, the Yugoslav guerillas would descend from their mountain strongholds and fall upon the Nazis’ rear. Nightly raids by Yugoslav guerillas against the Germans were making it impossible for Hitler to maintain uninterrupted railway and other communications through Yugoslavia to the Bulgarian jumping-off bases needed for an invasion of the Middle East oil region.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1942, Page 4
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181SPRING OFFENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1942, Page 4
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