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Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
...rebels talked to a TIME correspondent. Yannis Fotiades had been ill with tuberculosis; he had joined the Markos rebels when they promised hospital treatment in Yugoslavia. While still convalescing he was returned to Greece for "light duty." The light duty turned out to be the raid on Salonika. "I was very tired with all that marching," he said, "so I fell prisoner...
George Molvithis, 32, a former philology student at Salonika University, had played in amateur theatricals in the Communist Youth movement. Then he had gone to the hills to join the guerrillas. "Up there," he said, "two people may not even talk together. Brothers are posted to different units. The captains take all the good things. When we ate macaroni, they took...
...escape, Chryssoula volunteered for front-line duty. In the retreat after the Salonika action, she marched until exhausted and fell into a ditch. "The captain I was most afraid of," she said, "came up and pointed his pistol. Then the airplanes came over. Everyone scattered. I got away...
...trial continued, General Markos Vafiades hurled a. threat over the rebel radio. Unless the Salonika prisoners were released, he warned, a group of captured Greek army officers would be shot...