Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-11-25 | Page 5 | Food Scarce, but Wine's Plentiful as Throngs in Koritza Cheer Arrival of Greek Troops

Food Scarce But Wines Wine's Plentiful as Throngs r In n Koritza Cheer Chee But r Arrival of Gr Greek ek Troops S By 2 NICHOLAS WITH GREEK ARMY IN ALBANIA ALBANIA ALBANIA AL AL- BANIA by Telephone to Athens 1 Nov 25 UP UP-I UP I entered Koritza with the Greek military police to r find Albanian shepherds Greek storekeepers and soldiers rs from I both countries singing In the taverns celebrating cerebrating the towns town's capture from the Italians The town square was wu crowded and cafe cafes had reopened Small I boys helped tear down the barr barri barricades cades the It Italians threw up on onS the main tre street t. t but which they S I did not ui Us Other bo boys were piling of ot Italy's King icing Victor Emmanuel In the square for tor a bonfire Pictures of ot Greece's King George and nd Premier Pre Pro S mier niler John Metaxas were being ing displayed Food was scarce but wine was wat plentiful Gre Greek Creek k war bull bulletins circulated secretly while the Italians made this their main b base ae on th the northern front now were posted ted on boards in cafes A new town council was formed consisting of ot 10 Greeks l and four Moslems and headed by Mayor It began began began be be- gan issuing proclamations to restore restore restore re re- re- re store civilian life Townspeople people had hed prevented the fires s set by Italians before their withdrawal from causing extensive damage Some Som had stormed the the Jail and released Greeks arrested by the Italians I saw caw Greek engineers ra remove mines from roads and bridges Bridges blown up by the retreatIng retreating retreat- retreat Ing Int Italians already had been re x-e- x paired One Greek sapper won a medal for cutting the burning fuse luse on a 6 bomb found on a Devoll DevoU river bridge I saw a grinning mountaineer who was wu saId to have captured an Italian machine gun nest sin sin- handed gle by shooting two Italians Ital Ital- lAna ians and bayoneting the other while under the fire lire of his own troops At the abandoned Italian general general gen gen- eral headquarters I found macaroni macaroni macaroni maca maca- roni unfinished orders order of the day and proclamations in Greek which were to have been post posted d dIn in towns the Italians expected to capture Proclamations proclamations nr prep Dared for lor zur Proclamations proclamations nr prep Dared for lor zur dropping on Greek towns by Italian fliers read Townspeople Come out and welcome the ItalIan Italian Ital lint ian lan army Decorate your town with Italian flags No one may circulate on the streets after sunset ThC Th military air field outside the town was covered with bomb craters H Hangars a an n g gar a r s a were destroyed destroyed de de- de- de troyed and 10 Italian planes wrecked wreck d. d evidence of the accuracy accuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy of Greek British bombIng bombIng bombing bomb bomb- ing Military buildings bore machine machine ma ma- chine gun bullet marks Low flying British planes were said to have gunn gunned d them