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...almost as hard to reach from Athens as the other side of the Rockies is from Washington, D. C.-the little catamount Greek Army, supported by the R. A. F., had finally taken Corizza, advance base for Italy's "invasion" of Greece and the third largest town in Albania...
Corizza possesses two of Albania's best military air bases (others are at Tirana, Valona, Durazzo, all near the coast). Not only by heroic uphill righting but even more by knowing from lifelong habit how to get around in the hills, the evzone ("well-girt") highland Greek regiments-Balkan counterparts of Scotland's kilted "Ladies from Hell"-took these commanding positions one by one from the Italians, clambering over the top of the mountains with bayonets and hand grenades, later laboriously hauling up mountain guns...
ATHENS, Saturday, Nov. 30--Greek forces facing a steady stream of fresh Italian troops, were reported today to have won an "important initial success" in a fierce battle for southern Albania by storming a heavily fortified wooded plateau commanding the road to Argyrocastron...
ATHENS--Greek forces pounded disorganized Italian columns retreating all along the 120-mile war front today, harrying the Fascist attempts to make a stand against the Greek advance into Albania...
...their fire drove the enemy out of valleys below. With this tactic they pushed the enemy back on the central Pindus front. With necessary modifications of this tactic they pushed the enemy back of the Kalamas River on the flat coastal front. Devout Greeks, remembering that Italians had invaded Albania on Good Friday and sunk the cruiser Helle on the day of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, saw Providence in the Kalamas River's first flood in 128 years. Using the same device they pressed their counterinvasion of Albania on the northern...