The Archive · 1941

"Successful Operations"

Athens, Jan, 5.

Local operations continued suecessfully, and more Italian were taken, yesterday's Greek communique stated yesterday, The official Greek spokesman added yesterday that in the centre, the italians "were concentrating round Klisura in attempt to slow down the Greek advance long enough to form a new defence line north of Valona, The "Itallans_were active in the sector round" Pogradec, and also Jaunched an attack in the Chimara district, but the attacks were met by heavy" fre, and several tanks were destroyed—Reuter, tions, warehouses, the Gebruder Nielsen rice and starch mills, Focke-'Whit air frame factory and many other targets.

At Emmerich a bridge received a direct hit from less than $00 feet, At Egersund in Norway a 4,000-ton German supply ship was seton fre and jetties and warehouses were amaged, while at Flushing an antiaircraft ship was from ess than 00 feet and damaged severely.

Dry docks, power houses, a wire-Jess station and warehouses' were hit during four raids on the Lorient submarine base. During these and many other attacks on German-occupied aerodromes, harbours and industrial targets in Germany seven British aircraft were lost,

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