The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-14

More troops now are believed to bc moving up for another attack, hampered by Royal Air force straf- ing of the narrow mountain passag- es and river valleys and by snow storms which have begged down Transport on many mountain roads.
 British Not Sanguine
 British experts, however, were not too sanguine concerning future prospects. It appeared that new at- eacls can be expected shortly at ! points west of the Bitolj gap. Ger ! man and Italian forces can be ex- { pected to strike down between Lake 7 Ochrida and Lake Struma toward Corizza in second attempt to flank the West t-tcast defense line close to 1. the Adriatic coast.
 Tn Jugoslavia, the German claim l was that the Jugoslav armies have been pulverized and are now capable of little more than guerilla resist | ance in the mountains of Bosnia { Herzegovina and Montenegro. Both \ 1n the north and the south. 1t was 1 claimed, major Serb units have l been smashed and strong resistance still was encountered only in the ! central part of the country.
 | British reports were a little more l optimistic, contending that the Ju- goslays have braced in some sectors 1 notably along both sides of the Mo- 1 raya river, north of Nish and north 1 west of Skople.j They were alsc ! said to have captured Durazzo, chiei seaport of Albania, in drive down the Dalmation coast.
 However, the Italian communiqut reported developments which. Il true, would indicate the Jugoslav' may soon be encircled. Rome saic ' its second army corps had driver down the Dalmation coast to Gospi ' S4 miles north of zara and that column had fought its way cas- from Zara 50 miles to Kuin. Jugo' slav attempts to capture Scutar were said to have been repulsed ant a drive for Corizza was said to bt about ready to get underway.
 The British admitted that the Nt' uation in Egypt gave cause for se' rious anxiety. The Germans hat dashed past Bardia to reach Sollun on the Egyptian side of the front fer. The capture of Fort Capuzzt also was claimed.
 A British garrison at Tobruk stil held out and the Germans said thu British were trying to evacuate thu troops by sea.
 Still Hold Tobruk
 A war office communique said to- day that British empire forces con tinued to hold Tobruk, on thu Iibyan coast, and that British i planes were bombing German ant | Italian airdromes, motor transpor and rotop concentrations in Libys night and day.
 Radio Berlin. in broadcast picked i up here, said that Italian planes ] had attacked Tobrlk as British troops atemtpted to leave by sea, and ] damaged on troopship.
 Greek and British troops waited !. restlessly on their defense line irl ' 1owev Macedonia today for Ger man assault believed delayed by growing resistance in Jugoslavai. While a Greek spokesman report. I cd mo activity on the German front {. only unimportant patrol activity or I the Italian front" authoritative re. ports circulated that Serbian armies had taken the offensive against both the Germans and Italians.
 The Moscow radio was heard broadcasting that the army of south Serbie was pressing hard against Nish, railroad center that had served as a springboard for the Ger man assault on southeast Jugoslavis and that another Jugoslav force threatened to rout the Germans from Skoplje, controlling the lower vardar River valley into Greece. Il was reported that the Serbs were