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Show uu ITALIAN TROOPS I CLEAR AVLONA FRONT i ROME, June 13P Italian Alpine troops have cleared the Avlona front of Albanian insurrectionists by violent counter-attacks, according to adlceu received today, which declare that tne Italian troopfi were fired on from the rear by residents of Avlona. The Italians Ital-ians were arresting and deporting Mussulman Albanians. In reprisal, an Albanian chieftain Is reported to have shot a number of Italian prisoners. Dispatches received today state that on June" 6, Albanian rebels commencod Isolated attacks in tho region of Ka-nlna, Ka-nlna, Glorni, Dukati and Tepelini, to the south of Avlona. The Italians op-posod op-posod desperate resistance, giving way only bofore tho superior strength of the enemy. The garrisons of Tepelini and Dukati capitulated, but the other garrisons retreated. Nows of the fall of Tepelini and Dukati Du-kati to the Albanians caused a feeling of sadnera here today, as seventy officers offi-cers and eight hundred, men of the garrisons were taken prisoner. |