PERILOUS TASK
ASSISTING YUGOSLAV FORCES • SOME BRITISH OFFICERS CAUGHT & SHOT. AFTER RECENT LANDINGS FROM SUBMARINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12,25 p.m.) WASHINGTON. December 15. The Yugoslav, Colonel Svetozar Dimitryevich, arriving fom Cairo, declared that British planes and submarines wbre constantly carrying supplies and British officers to General Mikhailovitch, leader of the Yugoslav forces. Several officers landing recently from submarines were captured and shot. Parachute descent in the mountainous regions where General Mikhailovitch operates is considered safer. General Mikhailovitch’s . 100,000 men are comparatively inactive at present, awaiting the landing of an Allied arm-- on the Yugoslav or Greek coast. Meanwhile General Mikhailovitch is maintaining radio communication with the British. In one instance he notified headquarters in Egypt, ten minutes after the arrival of British staff officers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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127PERILOUS TASK Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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