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their "naked rear" to Yugoslavia in the north. Yugoslavia had no chance
against the Wehrmacht, but both Axis and Allies realized that if she
struck forcefully against the rather disorganized Italians, she could win a
major victory, embarrass Mussolini, delay the Axis conquest, and acquire
the munitions and supplies for a large-scale guerrilla harassment of the
Nazi occupiers. Thus, when two Yugoslav divisions drove southward on
April 7—one from Cetinje toward Shkoder, the other from Kosowska
Mitrovica toward Kukes—it was regarded as a serious business.
Especially when, by April 12, the Cetinje division had shoved the Italians
back to the gates
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of Shkoder and was pummeling them with attacks of increasing
intensity.
At this juncture the Servizio Informazione Militare got an idea. It
drafted two telegrams in Yugoslav military style and affixed the signature
of General Dusan Simovic, head of the new government. One read:
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