Evening star., 1941-04-14
YugosIovs Retreat
On Adriutic Coast,
Berlin Declares
BY tic Associated Press.

BY tic Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 14.-The Ger
man high command declared
today that the bulk of Serbian
opposition had been destroyed.
In Yugoslavia the mass OF
enemy forces which opposed the
German troops are destroyed" E"
the daily communique said.
Remnants of the Serbian Army
are retreating in the face of German
and Italian troops into the noun
tain country along the Adriatic.
There is resistance only at scat
tered spots"
The high command was silent for
the third straight day on details
of land operations against Greece,
although it said operations were
developing on schedule"
In Yugoslavia, it said, further
successful" raids were carried out
against airports in Central Bosnia
and Herzegovina, other military OBJ
JeCClVeS ana railroads.
Destruction In Sarajevo
At Sarajevo, where an assassina-
ton provided the spark for the
World War, Nazi air raids were said
to have caused heavy destruction
and extensive fires in a large troop
camp.
Supplementing its previous report
that Nazi panzer units rolled into
Belgrade, Yugoslavia's capital, with
Easter Sundays dawn, the COM
munique said that actually some
mechanical units had reached the
city Saturday night.
Occupation of Belgrade was an
nounced in special Easter COM
munique of the high command.
Panzer units rolled into Belgrade
after small groups of storm troop
ers hoisted the swastika. The capi-
tai, heavily bombed, had been aban-
doned by its government.
The German advance in the
Zagreb area, center of Croatia to
the north, was reported continuing
ION schedule" and % generals, 200
other officers, 10000 men and an
"unestimated mass" of war material
were reported captured there.
Ljubljana Claimed.
The high command said Ljubl-
jana, capital Of Slovenia, had fallen
to Italian forces driving around the
head of the Adriatic Sea.
Hungarian troops were reported to
have broken through Yugoslavias
northern border Notifications.
The high command, still silent
on land operations by German
forces IN Northern Greece, declared:
IN South Serbia the march for
ward continued as planned after
overcoming localized opposition by
remnants of dispersed Serb troops" !"
"a British War Office COM
munique said yesterday British
patrols had been in touch with
the Germans in Bitolj Pass, just
north of Phlorina, Greece, but
there had been no reports of
fighting there since last FridayD
Commenting on the Balkan sit
Commenting on the Balkan sit
uation, the authoritative commen-
tary Dienst aus Deutschland de-
clared 1T is now certain in Berlin
that the Serb Army will be forced
to capitulate," and added:
"The air bombardment Of Greek
harbors undoubtedly are intended to
open a southern offensive and to
hit at facilities for reinforcement
and ways of retreat in Middle and
Southern Greece"
Air Mastery Claimed.
Reichs Marshal Herman Wilhelm
Goering's flyers have won complete
mastery in the air over Yugoslavia,
authorized sources declared.
They cited as an example q raid
yesterday by German bombers and
fighters on the rear of the Serb lines
in which they said not a single
enemy plane was encountered.
The German planes were said to
have been met by strong defense
from the ground by machine guns
and anti-aircraft, however, but no
German planes were reported lost.
Entire Yugosiov Area
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