BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Balkan Way

Biggest island of freedom in Europe is the wild mountainous triangle of old Serbia dominated by General Draja Mihailovich. The Yugoslavs fight in a bumptiously Balkan way: in separate groups divided by ancient hates. Thus, within Mihailovich's domain operates a separate force directed by the Yugoslav Communist Party.

Elsewhere in old Yugoslavia at least six smaller Axis-surrounded islands carry on the struggle: 1) in the mountains behind Split, bands of Croats fight the Italians; 2) farther north, around Delnice, other Croats strike hard & often at Italian garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active...

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