Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-22

A communique broadcast by the
partiSans indicated their forces
were in action on a score of fronts
from the Albanian frontier to
northeastern Italy.
Allied Lightning fighters crossed
the Adriatic from their bases in
southern Italy to attack the rail-
way yard at Skolpje, in southern
Jugoslav, for the second time this
week, setting fire to locomotive
sheds in the yard other Allied
planes bombed and damaged three
small enemy vessels off the Jugo1
slav coast.
HEAVY FIGHTING
Particularly heavy fighting was
in progress along the Una river
in northern Bosnia, where the
GuerillaS killed more than 100 en-
emy troops, captured another 100
and confiscated a large supply of
German arms and munitions.
Just south OF the river, the par
tisans stormed into the town of
Ljubja, site of a mine which form
erly produced for the German war
machine 1900 tons a day of the
second best grade of iron ore in
all Europe.
The partisans smashed all the
mining installations and wiped out
a battalion of puppet uStashi troops
who attempted to hold the town.
Dispatches from Switzerland, said
partisan troops had battled their
way across the Danube at an un-
identified point and were harrying
and burning enemy installations in
Hungary.
Partisan agents also were said to
have entered Hungary by way OF
Serbia in an effort to arouse the
Populace against the Nazis.
DRIVE TO START
The arrival of the new German
reinforcements in Fiume appeared
to signal the start of a new Nazi
drive to clear the Istrian penin-
sula and restore railway communi.
cations from the Reich and its
central European Satellites into the
INVASION threatened Balkans.
The Swiss reports said traffic or
major part of the railroad lines
in northwestern JugoSlavia was be-
ing interrupted almost continuously
by saboteurs and organized partisan
bands, and that the Germans have
posted military guards on, all tht
railroads with orders to shoot or
sight anyone approaching them
These reports said the Nazi were
planning to annex the province oi
Slovenia as a German protectorate
to obtain tighter control over the
rail lines.
| The partisan communiquc report
ed new successes in the battle for
control of the Dalmatian coast-a
possible landing point for Allied in
vasion forces.
CAPTURE ISLAND
Guerilla forces capttTed The is
land Of Shipanj, in the Adriatic
sea near Dubrovnik, and seized the
108-ton steamer Kupari, two motor
launches ana Two scnoonerS. Other
partisans battled the Germans on
the big Pejeshac peninsula, north
of Dubrovnik.
AT the top OF the hdriatiC, where
the partisans earlier this week adj
mitted their troops had been fore
ed out of Susak, German dive
bombcrs attacked the town of SEM
35 miles to the south. in an effort
to dislodgc the Gucrillas from that
strongpoint. Many casualties were
inflicted in the town, the COM
munique said.
The partisans also reported very
heavy" fighting in southern Mon
tencgro. near the Albanian frontier
but gave no details of the action
Yesterdays commCnique said par
tisan and Axis troops were engaged
near Cetinje, 25 miles above the
Albanian border.
JugOslav SaboteurS also struck al
the rail lines west of Belgrade
] blowing up German military
train.