Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-24 | Page 5 | Yugoslavs Fight Germans in Italian Towns

I Yugoslavs Fight Germans in inE ini i E Italian Kalian Towns 1 i LO LO LONDON DON Sept 24 CD strong up-strong Strong guerrilla forces were reported reported re- re yu ported fighting German troops I Friday in the streets of Trieste I gad and nd threatening Fiume Flume in an apparently apparently ap ap- coordinated drive against ft the two Italian ports at the northern north north- em Send ern end of the Adriatic t J i The action was part of a series of new flare ps by p partisan armies Against nazi occupying forces at scattered points along some niles miles of the eastern Adriatic shore rill fill conceivably inaugurated with with allied approval Yugoslav sources here said Slovene rene vene irregulars struck some 25 miles niles into Italy from the Yugoslav Yugo Yugo- slav Flay border and penetrated Trieste with oppressed inhabitants of that that former ormer Italian naval base joining their sir ranks to attack the nazi gar gar- rison t These ese same sources reported other Slovene formations had occupied occupied occupied oc oc- Idria Italian mountain mountaintown mountaintown town town four miles east of the Yugoslav Yugoslav Yugo- Yugo slav border and 28 miles northeast of Trieste while farther to the east in northwestern Yugoslavia heavy fighting was said to be in progress