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...another extreme of the Axis, the Italian disciples of "the new order" were quite definitely having sabotage trouble as well as other kinds. While they retreated from the Greeks through Albanian mountain passes around Corizza, the Italians were sniped and raided by rebel Albanian guerrillas. Many little groups of four or five guerrillas in the frigid, snowy hills were said to add up to a large force commanded by former Albanian Major Ali Mehmed, who fled his native country when the Italians took over in 1938. Major Mehmed was reported to have returned to Albania quite recently by parachute from...
...Ubaldo Soddu, after cashiering some 50 senior officers, tried to form a secondary defense line. Another Greek pursuit column harried the Italian retreat toward Moskopole ("Perfumed City"). Greek and British warplanes bombed and machine-gunned long columns of dejected Blackshirts and Alpini, whose welfare was further menaced by mutinous Albanian battalions in their very midst, by Albanian snipers, knife-men, rock-rollers and bridge-blasters in the gorges and ravines along...
...Barnes drove out over winding mountain roads to a military airport. On a moonlit field, surrounded by towering hills, he stuffed his big frame into a buoyant flying jacket* and crawled into the belly of a British bomber. The plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten...
...last week. It was clear that Britons had landed at Crete, and some other Greek islands. In London a ?5,000,000 loan to Greece was announced. The R. A. F. was really active. Gloster Gladiator fighters patrolled over Greek cities, and bombers hit at Naples, Brindisi, Taranto and Albanian bases. The first British casualty was announced: an R. A. F. gunner, wounded in the head by what was described as a "stray bullet" from an Italian plane. British naval vessels arrived in Athens from Alexandria, carrying a few troops. Very useful in surprising and checking the Italians...
Farther north another spearhead drove toward Fiorina, whence another railway leads to vital Salonika on the eastern coast. Greek counter-raids against this northern drive did get to Albanian soil, and did cause the Italians some embarrassment at their rear...