The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-23
GREEK TROOPS
 SEIZE CHIMARA
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Tepelini and Klisura sectors.
 The entire garrison, made up of the 153 I'd battalion of Blackshirt militia, of which Roberto Farrinacci is honorary commander, surrendered after the outskirts of Chimara had been shelled for 48 hours.
 Was Crack Unit
 The battalion, consisting of 800 men and 30 officers, according to the official statement, was made up of crack units which had distinguished themselves in the Spanish and Ethi- opian campaigns. The battalion was flown to Chimara from Italy recent 1y to bolster the front.
 It was officially announced that large quantities of war materials were captured.
 The news of Chimara's fall was announced to cheering crowds wait ing in bright sunshine before Greek general headquarters. The peal of church bells relayed the news to the suburbs. Athens was wild with joy.
 A communique issued at RAF headquarters said that British fight CT planes on Saturday had inter cepted and attacked Italian bomb- CTS over Agryrogastron, but it was impossible to observe the results" be- cause of a counter attack by 50 Ital- ian fighters against 10 British.
 Eight Italian fighters, however, were definitely reported shot down and three more probably downed. Two British fighters were listed as missing.
 British bombers yesterday attacked the Kunovo oil wells in central AL bania.
 Near Klisura, at the eastern end of the line, three Italian divisions --50,000 men-were being battered from three sides by Greek shock troops, according to a dispatch from Henry T. Gorrell, United Press Staff correspondent in that sector. A government spokesman said the Italians had counter attacked at Klisura but had been repulsed, and that Italian endorsements in cluding waves of fighting planes, had been thrown into both the Klisura and Tepelini sectors.
 Chimara was encompassed on three sides by Greek artillery, and on the other by the Adriatic, and it was reported that Greeks had taken new mountain positions north of the town, forcing the Italians farther up the coast, where they were for tifying new positions at the lower end of Valona Bay, 20 miles from Chimara.
 In New York, National Broad casting Company heard a British Boardcasting Company announcer say that Greeks had captured Chimara BEG chedited the report to the Athens Radio station0
 A government spokesman said IS Italian planes had been shot down in tie past 48 hours by Greek anti craft. guns and that new shipments of these guns had reached all fronts. Three Italian dive bombers were said to have been shot down by anti-aircraft machine guns when the gunners stood their ground and caught the planes in cross-fire as they swooped down.
 (EeportS at Struga, on the Jugo- Slav border, said five German planes, including a Stuka dive bomber, ar- rived at the Tirana, Albania, air. port yesterday morning)
 Nazi Planes May Be There
 A British pilot who took part last week in a raid on Brindisi, Italian embarkation point for Albania, said he encountered the worst antl-a1r- craft barrage he ever had experience ed and that "I'm ready to bet that the guns which threw up that bar rage were not Italian He said the explosions of shells drowned out the sound of his planes motors and that although he scored hits on his objective, a v-shaped group of fac- tory buildings, his plane was dam aged and his crew had to Jettslon everything removable from the plane, to reach its base again.
 The 57th Greek war communlque said: Local fighting continues suc- cessfully. Among prisoners we cap tured were two lieutenant colonels' Two more Italian airplanes were shot down."
 A public security ministry com- munoue said: "All was quiet in the inerior of Greece"
 Reports at Struga said the Greeks captured three more will ls ss Sunday-Polpana, northeast of Chimara in the coastal sector; Romas, a mile west of the Tomorica river in hte Tomor mountains, IS miles east of Berat; and Tervoh, in the F'ranlsi sector).
 NIGHT THIEVES