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Draja Mihailovich's fiery army of 145-150,000 former Yugoslav regulars, Serb Chetnik guerrillas, Croats, Slovenes, Jews, Bulgarian and Austrian deserters, has often been called a guerrilla force. It usually fights in small, separated groups like guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
From Yugoslavia, where Serb patriots under General Draja Mikhailovitch have been fighting pitched battles with Nazi troops, came word that Yugoslav and Greek "freedom armies" had joined forces, would henceforth fight a unified campaign. Communiques from the Axis lines told of capturing a town from the Chetniks, of the execution of 57 men and seven women for anti-Nazi activity...
...went to Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Old Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro. She climbed mountains, visited Roman and Venetian ruins, tuberculosis sanatoria, Turkish mosques, shrines, churches, monasteries, tombs, hovels, homes. She talked with intellectuals, professors, lawyers, peasants, poets, censors, soldiers, politicians, anti-Serb Croats, fanatical Serb nationalists, Bosnian Moslems and unassimilated Turks...
Yugoslavia's civil war raged harder than ever. The Nazis and their stooges caught so much hell from former Yugoslav soldiers, Serb Chetnik guerrillas and other Yugoslav patriots that puppet Premier Milan Neditch of Serbia called on the peasantry to battle for the Axis. Snorted a Serb spokesman in Ankara: "If Neditch thinks that he can persuade the peasants to turn upon their own fathers, sons and brothers fighting in the mountains, he has taken leave of his senses...
Yugoslavia. Even while Adolf Hitler's armies were passing from conquered Yugoslavia to other fields of battle, Serb guerrillas collected in the dark mountains and tangled forests of their back country. Officers and men of Yugoslavia's shattered, scattered army joined them. They organized the guerrillas, who began to raid German garrisons, occupy villages, cut rail lines to vital Black Sea ports. Last week they struck hard. Enraged by the execution of 50 hostages as "intellectual instigators" of the Zagreb telephone ex change explosion that killed five Germans (TIME, Sept. 22), revolutionary Chetniks seized the town of Srpska...