EVENTS IN BALKANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1943, Page 3

EVENTS IN BALKANS

REBELLION REPORTED IN RUMANIA TOWN TAKEN BY YUGOSLAV GUERILLAS. RECENT CLAIMS BY AXIS DISCREDITED. LONDON. July 22. A message from Istanbul, Turkey, says that a rebellion has broken out in Bucharest, the Rumanian capital, over the movement of Rumanian troops to the Russian front King Michael and the Queen Mother, with the support of M. Manin, the leader of the Peasant Party, have demanded the withdrawal of the troops to defend only the Bessarabian frontier. Severe fighting continues in eastern qnd central Bosnia (the' province near the centre of Yugoslavia), where the partisan army which broke out from Montenegro (to the south), ha's taken the offensive and captured an important town from the Axis garrison, according to reports reaching Cairo from Yugoslavia. This news (states a British Official Wireless message), is welcomed as a proof that the German claim to have wiped out the main body of the partisan army is false. The activities of the partisans at the present time tire likely to be particularly valuable to the Allied cause, as disruption of Axis communications by such forces is closely linked with the Allied plans. British military liaison with the forces of General Mikhailovich and with the partisans ensures that the guerilla activity is not carried out on a hit-and-miss basis, but systematically, to achieve the greatest effect at a given place and time.