The difficulties which face the Government forees are enormous. The country is mountainous—and the only communications are along narrow stone paths which dim! the passes with countless flights of steps. The hills are thickly. wooded, since for three years the timber has not been cut on scale owing to the impossibility of exporting timber and charcoal. Tt {s, therefore, unsuited for the effeetive "use of "aircraft. The civil Population will be too frightened of reprisals to help the Govern-int forces until a major victory been won, But as soon as this been secured they will in all probability rise against their oppressors.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.