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brigade,  a division, or a corps. Incredible as this may seem, 
 
it is literally true. There have beon repeated instances of
 
battalions reported as brigades, divisions as army corps, etc..
 
From time  to time Tito's staff officers have evinced some slight
 
interest and surprise when the British intelligence officer there
 
was able to give them, from British battle order sources, accu-
 
rate descriptive details about; German formations in Jugoslavia
 
not previously known to the Partisans, but subsequently verified
 
by them as true.
 
     It is to be noted that the enemy holds the entire coast
 
line, all major cities, all major communications lines between
 
the cities and particularly two main north and south routes run-
 
ning from enemy-controlled territory in northern Italy, Austria
 
and Hungary through Jugoslavia and Albania into Greece.
 
            F.  NATURE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS WHICH
               HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING CONDUCTED
 
     The exclusively guerrilla nature of the war situation in
 
Jugoslavia becomes acutely obvious to an Allied officer going
 
into the country. The theory that the country is divided into
 
occupied and liberated territory is to a degree in the nature
 
of a myth. It is true that there is a liberated territory in 
 
the sense that there are certain territories usually free of
 
enemy troops, but there is no territory anyw here in the country
 
which cannot be entered by enemy troops as will, and with a min-
 
 
 
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