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...Thermopylae. 3. Troy. 4. Corizza. 5. Ephesus...
...British tried to hold successive lines, each hinged on mountains and dominating passes. The first line ran from Mt. Olympus to Corizza in Albania. Against this line the Germans threw heavy attacks aimed at Larissa and Kalabaka, both crucial railway towns, on lines leading to southern Greece. The Italians put on a drive from Albania. On the right, near Olympus, the British at first held firm; it was on this front, at Sarandaporo Pass, that bloodshed was worst. But in the center the defenses were pushed back, and in Albania the Greeks lost Corizza...
...Corizza, where Italy's military weakness was first revealed...
Last week initiative in Albania passed to the Axis. Each day Greek communiques spoke of Italian counterattacks, fiercer and better planned than any that had gone before. The biggest Italian effort seemed to be aimed at Corizza, on the northern sector of the front, which the Greeks occupied when the war was a month...
...Greeks claimed continuing success against these counterattacks. They said they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...