The Press: Down the Blue Hip

Last month TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich told the dramatic story of his capture and escape from Nazi parachutists sent to seize Marshal Tito (TIME, June 26). Herewith the sequel—the report of a mass march by Partisans and Allied associates through Yugoslavia's German-infested mountains.

The frost woke me and my two Partisan guards at dawn on May 26 in the primeval forest of the Yavorusha Mountain. We climbed the ankle-deep carpet of dry leaves up to the top, and all around us the thick highland woods teemed with refugees and lowing cattle.

At noon...

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