Word: macedonias
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...strange but vigorous aviary includes other breeds. Some are "slavo-phones," Slavic-speaking people of Macedonia lured by Communist promises of an autonomous Macedonia. Some are simply bandits. More & more new "recruits" are conscripts, shanghaied into the guerrilla forces by raids into their villages...
...Salonika last week, the huge concert studio of Radio Macedonia had been turned into a makeshift courtroom. Fenced in by a net of chicken wire, 128 rebel prisoners, captured after the shelling of Salonika last month, hunched together in close-packed seats. The judges, nine army officers, sat on the stage. Around them was stacked the evidence: rifles, machine guns, grenades. A mountain howitzer poked its muzzle out beside a grand piano...
...home village of Yannitsa in Macedonia, chestnut-haired Chryssoula Ransou, 19, had joined the Communist Youth because "it was fashionable." Chryssoula had been ordered to duty at a rebel base hospital on the Yugoslav border. There, Chryssoula, who had promised to marry a boy in Yannitsa, learned about the new rebel marriage rules...
...news was relayed to the government of Premier Themistocles Sophoulis by an army radioman in Macedonia and by a destroyer which had picked it up at sea. A spokesman for General Markos Vafiades, guerrilla chieftain, had proclaimed formation of a new northern state -the "First Provisional Democratic Government of Free Greece." Chief of state: Markos Vafiades...
...tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that takes up where Stalin...