'A. battle between Greeks and Mallans with a British airman os the prize was described in the Greek newspaper "Eleftheron Vilna" yester= day and quoted on the Athens Radio.
The newspaper said the airman baled out and landed safely near the Mahan lines. The Talians prepared. to take him prisoner, but a band of Greeks sprang from their positions und engaged the enemy. A homeric hand-to-hand battle ensued. which ended with the defeat of the Italians The British airman was taken bach {n triumph to the Greek line, where. his rescue was suitably celebrated, Something Unusual London, Mar. 17.
The frst admission that anything unusual was going on at the Greol: front was made by the Rome Radic yesterday, Referring to an announcement in Sunday's Italian communique that "in the course of local activity Italian troops captured arms and prisoners) in the sector of the 11th army." the announcer indicated that "something more than patrol activity was in pro tress, and that the action was intended aga test of enemy resistance on one Greek front, where things ave
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