Evening star., 1943-09-30
Yugos|av GuerriIIas
Reported Forcing Nazi
Retreat Near Gorilla
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
LONDON, Sept. 30.-A Patriot
communique broadcast today
from somewhere in Yugoslavia
said guerrilla forces had forced
German troops to retreat "at
many places" near the north
eastern Italian city of Gorilla
and at Ljubljana, in Yugoslavia.
The war bulletin, recorded here by
Reuters, made no mention of how
far the irregulars had swept past
Gorilla, 25 miles west of the Yugo-
slav border and 80 miles northwest
of Trieste, but the London Daily
Mail, quoting German radio ac-
counts, said the guerrillas had PEN
etrated 100 miles into Northern
Italy to the Venice area.
This account declared fighting
was in progress between Venice and
Trieste to the northeast and north
ward toward the Austrian border in
the Dolemite foothills.
The newspaper quoted a Berlin
radio spokesman as saying that the
entire area was unsafe" and that
German troop movements were pos
sible only in conveys Roads, bridges
and railways were said to have been
blasted.
Nazis Strengthen Dalmatian Area.
South along the eastern shore of
the Adriatic, the Germans were said
to be rushing additional forces to
the Dalmatian coastal sector to
strengthen the battered troops
which recaptured the port Of Split
after Is days of fighting.
The broadcast Yugoslav conf
munique today said heavy fighting
was in progress near that city, the
evacuation of which had been ad-
n1itted earlier.
In the port of Susak. adjoining
the Italian city of Fiume, all po-
sitions were said to be sfrnly held
with heavy losses having been in
f1icted on the enemy.
Units of the first Croat corps were
credited with killing so Germans and
destroying II trucks in an attack on
a German column moving between
Bihac and Knin Other units de-
rallied German military train on
the railway between Brod and Ia
greb.
Allied Unification Move Seen.
Meanwhile, the arrival in Cairo of
young King Peter of Yugoslavia was
viewed in London as the likely fore
runner of an Allied move to bring
about a uniflcation of the two Yugo-
slav guerrilla armies which together |
are estimated to total around 300,-
600 men.
Allied officers are said to be at
tached to the headquarters of both |
Gen. Draja Mihilovich, the Yugo-
slav minister of war, and the rival |
guerrilla leader, Josip Broz ("Gen
Tito'D.
These Allied representatives, it is
said in London, are unable to bring
about common understanding be-
tween the two leaders. Yugoslavs
here said there have been no recent |
reports of action by Gen. Mihai-
lovich's forces, centered in Southern |
Yugoslavia.
These same sources said Tito" re-
Gently has renewed an Outstanding
accusation that Mihailovich openly
collaborated with the Germans.
Nazis Admit Fierce Fighting.
Milijoi Gavrilovic, Yugoslav EN-
,ac TNttnr ri1nr caiI iye az
the Nazis, tacitly admitting the
fiereeness of the fighting in North
eastern Italy, had directed their
forces to take no more prisoners.
German war criminals must an
swer individually if they f1out the
rules of war and slaughter prison. |
ers of duly constituted army" the
government spokesman warned.
Referring to differences between |
"Tito" and Gen.. Mihailovich, he |
said he was more optimistic as a
result of the general Yugoslav op-
position to the Germans, that the |
leaders of Yugoslav forces even
tually would join under a common
banner.
The Berlin radio, in a further ac-
acknowledgement of Yugoslav opposi- |
ton in Northern Italy, said that |
Nazi forces mopping up Slovenian
and Communist bands" in the area
east of Gorilla, in Northeastern |
Italy, were progressing"
(The British radio, heard by
CHS, said an Allied warship has
brought arms to Yugoslav parti-
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