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...additional Bulgarian occupation forces. French sources reported that the underground had called a general strike, unleashed a new wave of sabotage. From London came word that Allied staff officers had returned to Cairo from three audacious days of conference with underground leaders. But around the Aegean port of Salonika, key to the Vardar Valley route to Central Europe, the Germans were strongly entrenched...
...conquered countries, ugly intimations that men thought the day of reckoning was close-a general strike in Salonika, daylight attacks on Nazi soldiers in Paris, new guerrilla outbreaks in Greece and Yugoslavia...
...from the south the Liberators flew to drop their calling cards at the Balkan door to middle Europe. They surprised Sedes airdrome, the big Luftwaffe base near Salonika, struck a savage blow and got away without loss. Four days later their wings swept again over Grecian soil, their bombs plastered Nazi airfields near Athens...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines were destroyed, delaying many important trains. Rome radio reported the capture and execution by guerrillas of Colonel Giuseppe Lispeti, Italian commander in southern Montenegro. The Germans, who two months earlier had announced that the Partisans were wiped out, now reported new "mopping up" operations...
...Germany Ready? In the Balkans Germany is hurrying to complete defense lines against an expected Allied onslaught. The Germans have three major defense lines in southeastern Europe. One line starts on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, curves south along the ragged border of Turkey to Alexandroupolis and Salonika, then cuts across Greece to Corfu and the Adriatic Sea. The second starts at the mouth of the Danube, runs up to Vienna and the Alps. The third follows the Danube to Vienna, then runs along the northern spur of the Carpathians to the main German defense lines in Poland...