Free Men

In the Balkans the struggle of guerrillas against occupying Axis troops grew hotter as the weather cleared. From Yugoslavia's island of freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months.

Meanwhile, in the harsh highlands of Greek Macedonia, a force of 15,000 men banded together, cut the short-cut railroad to the Russian front, via Bulgaria, in five places and attacked two Nazi troop trains, leaving 225 dead & dying Germans. From crag tops they rolled huge boulders down into narrow bends, stopped traffic along the only motor road to Bulgaria.

For free men there was still no surrender.

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