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- |