DAMAGING ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1943, Page 3

DAMAGING ATTACK

ON RAILWAY TO BELGRADE MADE BY YUGOSLAVS. SUCCESSES IN OTHER AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 29. “The railway line from Zagreb to Belgrade has been destroyed at 130 points over a total length of more than 37 miles,” states a communique issued by the Yugoslav People’s Liberation 'Army. “Two large bridges and several smaller ones were blown up. Over 1,000 telegraph poles, four railway engines and 60 wagons were destroyed. At one point, 100 Germans guarding the track were killed, and at another 190 were killed. “The operation was carried out by the Seventh Slovenian Corps. .“In Croatia, Partisans repulsed attacks by German forces who is the last few days have been carrying out major operations in the region of Zumenberak, west of Zagreb. “On the Croat-Hungarian frontier, Partisans destroyed the railway line between Koprivnica and Djoekenos. “In Slovenia, Partisans have occupied a number of fortified positions behind the German lines. The United Twenty-Seventh Division -occupied Rogatica, in Eastern Bosnia. A hundred Germans were killed and 120 wounded and much war material was captured.”