FIGHTING WELL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 4

FIGHTING WELL

YUGOSLAV PARTISAN ARMY ITALIANS JOIN UP IMPORTANT SUCCESSES CLAIMED (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.32 a.m.) RUGBY, October 14. The Yugoslav radio, speaking of the Italian units operating with the Partisans, says the reorganisation of the Garibaldi Division has been concluded and the division is now fighting at Slovenia. The Italian battalion which was in action at Split was under two Italian colonels. In Montenegro, at first only part of the Venezia Division fought with the Partisans, while the rest sided with the Germans. The latter have now gone over to the Partisans. It is expected that more Italian units will join the Partisan army. The radio says violent fighting continues in several sectors, including Tusia and in Slovenia and Istra, along the main railway line. German units which attempted to advance on Tusia were repulsed and are falling back in the direction of Dodoj. Units of the First Croat Corps are operating along the railway line between Ogulin and Zagreb. Three hundred Germans were killed and 355 prisoners taken. At Ousk German units repeatedly charged the Yugoslav positions with tanks and infantry and succeeded in breaking through in the direction of Cirkvenice and Bakar on the coast. In Montenegro, Partisans have captured the important traffic junction of Martine.