Athens, Mar. 11.
Premier Benito Mussolini seven days ago toured the Albanian front and was most discouraged over what he saw, Greek correspondents on tha central front yesterday said they learned from captured Italian officers, Premier Mussolini's trip, which he made in an armoured car, was intended ed to bolster Italian resistance and whip up Fascist moral. Il Duce went as far as the Tepelini sector, it was said. The general outlook greatly discouraged him, correspondents reported Italian officers told them.
The correspondents also reported that the Seventh Blackshirt Battalion vas practically annihilated in a battle now going on.
Among the few left alive in the battalion was Major Pellegrini. its commander and well known member of the Italian parliament, who was captured, the correspondents said.
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