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Show GREEKS OCCUPY VITALJEIGHTS ATHENS, Jan. 18 W) Surprise Infantry attacks wer reported Thursday to have enabled Greek fighters to occupy Important mountain moun-tain heights in the central Albanian Alba-nian battlefront despit sever snowstorms followed by a heavy rain. Greek spokesmen said their troops "continued their victorious advance" by seising positions which Improved their lines north of Kit-sura. Kit-sura. Intensive artillery fir along most of th front want on despite th snow and rain, It was reported. Aside from the surprise attack on th central sector, spokesmen said, Infantry action was limited to mopping up operations against isolated Italian units and to collecting col-lecting and sorting fascist war materiel taken In the past week. Two Italian counterattacks were repulsed, a Greek authority asserted. as-serted. In th localised central front fighting. A raid by an Italian submarine on a Ion policeman sitting on th shor of an Aegean sea Island was related by th horn security ministry. min-istry. Th submarine machine-gunned the policeman unsuccessfully from close rang, a ministry spokesman said, and then mad off. |