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and undiagnosed as well as diagnosed, between 25 and 40% of the
 
population. One British medical officer with ten months' exper-
 
ience up and down the country believes that the over-all health
 
situation is so bad as to make improbable the physical ability
 
of the army and civilian population to continue resistance to
 
the enemy during another winter of war even though their "will 
 
to resist" should persevere unabated.
 
     Another interesting item arising out of my medical conver-
 
sations was the statement that venereal disease was seriously on
 
the increase among enemy troops. I told the doctors concerned
 
that this constituted enemy military intelligence of a high or-
 
der of interest to us and that more precise figures indicating
 
what proportion of enemy troops were incapacitated, for how long,
 
the rate of incidence, and the rate of increase, would be welcome.
 
They stated that such information could be obtained from captured
 
enemy doctors and that they would make a point of obtaining it.
 
          D. PARTISAN BATTLE ORDER
 
     The following information on Partisan battle order was sup-
 
plied to me by General Arso Iovanovic, Partisan Chief of Staff
 
at Par t isan GHQ:
 
     The Partisan army is compossd today of between 290,000 and
 
310,000 troops divided into 11  army corps and three so-called
 
army commands. Both men and women serve in the army although
 
the proportion of women was not ascertained Children  as young
 
 
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