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...tens of thousands of civilians armed to their caps or babushkas, the citizenry had turned into the proverbial mob with many heads but no brains. Hospitals have treated gunshot wounds day and night. Many people retreated from the streets altogether, but a housewife washing dishes in the city of Elbasan was reportedly killed by random gunfire...
Greek troops were reported within shelling range of Italian military bases on two fronts--Tepelini 15 miles north of Argyrocastron and Elbasan, 24 miles south of the Albanian capital of Tirana...
...Albanian coast. Up & down this road Greek Generalissimo Papagos could swiftly shift his strength in or out of any of the mountain troughs, slanting northwest-southeast, through which the scattered Italian Eleventh Army last week fought rear-guard actions in its withdrawal up to the line from Valona to Elbasan. Next major Greek objective was the Italians' southwestern base, Argirocastro, defended by an Italian "battalion of death" fresh from Modena. The Greeks, attacking before dawn after nocturnal artillery barrages, smashed their way by grenade and bayonet up the eastern wall of Argirocastro's valley. This week...
...Fascist reinforcements moving up to Pogradec met their pell-melling comrades on the road out of there, turned and fled with them as Pogradec fell. The same thing happened at Moskopole and it looked as though the first stand General Soddu could make would be on a line from Elbasan on the Shkumin River, which cuts Albania in two roughly equal parts, down the Devoll River to Valona. The way things were going last week, the southern part of Albania would soon be mostly Greek, which in fact it is culturally and racially. At glad Corizza, Major Charissiades, heading...
...north end of the front, the victorious Greek forces continued hammering at the heels of the Italians who apparently were falling back on Elbasan...
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