TheCodeBreakers
Withdraw immediately with all subordinate troops back towards
Kosowska Mitrovica.
Simovic
Both messages were enciphered in the Yugoslav Army system, and at
10 a.m. on April 13, an S.I.M. station, observing all Yugoslav radio
regulations as to wavelength, transmission times, and subordinate
stations, contacted the two divisional stations and passed the messages,
both of which were receipted for. The drive toward Kukes slackened
immediately. The Cetinje division, however, requested confirmation. None
came.
Next morning, the confused divisional command, not having received
any disavowal of the enciphered orders, and consequently believing that
they were valid though incomprehensible lifted its attacks at Shkoder
and began retreating northward. The Italians hastened to fill the military
vacuum that was created, and marched the 10 miles from Kotor to
Cetinje in a day