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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...
Corizza possesses two of Albania's best military air bases (others are at Tirana, Valona, Durazzo, all near the coast). Not only by heroic uphill righting but even more by knowing from lifelong habit how to get around in the hills, the evzone ("well-girt") highland Greek regiments-Balkan counterparts of Scotland's kilted "Ladies from Hell"-took these commanding positions one by one from the Italians, clambering over the top of the mountains with bayonets and hand grenades, later laboriously hauling up mountain guns...
ATHENS--Greek forces today hurled back Italian troops along "the entire front" in Albania and seized strong positions for new assaults, the high command reported as dispatches from the front placed the Greek vanguard barely 45 miles from Tirana...
Italian commanders were said to be rushing reinforcements into mountain positions in an effort to stem the Greek drive which has opened up the main read to Tirana, capital of Albania...
...they had a much better chance of staying in the eastern Mediterranean. If they were cagey, they might even draw the Italian Fleet into the long desired open battle. Britain could also afford some air assistance. British planes were said to be taking part in raids on Porto Edda, Tirana and Durazzo in Albania, and last week this British craft-probably carrier-based Blackburns-bombed Naples to give the Italian foot its first stings of war. The glowing crater of Vesuvius lighted the way to blacked-out Naples...