by David Thompson on 04 Oct 2004 23:08 * * *
8/4/1941, Valjevo - Rail line Valjevo-Belgrade interrupted through dynamiting of a bridge near Stubline, 20 km. southwest of Belgrade. All telephone lines along the rail line disrupted through sawing off of the telephone poles. At 1700 hours on 8/4/1941 rail line will be open again.
At 0500 Mionica, 16 km. southeast of Valjevo, attacked by Communist band, 1 Serbian policeman, 1 civilian killed, 1 Serbian policemen wounded, 12000 dinars stolen. Two companies of the 64th Reserve Police Battalion with a small detachment of the 704th Signal Company pursue the band up to Belanovica, 40 km. southeast of Valjevo, there they are fired upon from a distance of 1500 meters; they attack the band which at once escapes in the terrain which is obstructed from visibility.
It is suspected that secret communications of the insurgents are transmitted by motor vehicles which are frequently disguised as armed forces vehicles. Division orders the control of the motor vehicle traffic.
8/5/1941 - It is reported that the Pantic band is planning an attack on Valjevo during the night from 8/5 to 8/6/1941 or during the following night. The division orders increased alertness of all security posts.
8/5/1941 - Pantic band detachment of the people's liberators attempts to take hostages from the population and sends threatening letters to the police.
Activities by the band of the Jewish physician Dr. Kraus in and near Pecka.
8/6/1941, Valjevo - Truck from 10th Company of 724th Regiment is fired upon on its way from Vrbic, 8 km. east of Krupanj, where two men suspected of being members of a Communist band were arrested; two soldiers suffered injuries on legs and ankles, one of the arrested Serbs was wounded below the knee. After the men riding on the truck opened fire the band immediately fled into the thicket. The soldier with the leg injury was taken to field hospital 704 in Valjevo; the Serb who suffered the knee injury was taken to the civilian hospital where he died shortly thereafter.
8/7/1941 - Disturbances in Bogatic, 20 km. northwest of Sabac. The district capital and district offices were raided by Communists, the district governor, his deputy, and one civilian were shot, wounded persons among the civilian population, prison opened, Serbian police disarmed, district headquarters Sabac sends 3 military policemen and 15 Serbian policemen to Bogatic. LXV Higher [Corps] Command gives orders to the 718th Light Division to have companies frequently advance in this area for reasons of safety.
8/8/1941 - In Belgrade, too, cases of Communist sabotage and raids are increasing.
It is reported from Ljig, 28 km. southeast of Valjevo, that the police stations in Babaic and Ljig were raided by Communist bands, and the policemen disarmed and kidnapped. A woman, who had previously given a statement about the band, and a teacher were also kidnapped. Division announces the establishment of a company leadership course and measures to be taken for the safety of the motor-vehicle convoys.
8/9/1941 - Railroad train moving from Cacak to Belgrade is attacked at 0100 at the railroad station Latkovic, 28 km. east of Valjevo, two members of the 724th Light Regiment and one soldier from Sarajevo killed, one master sergeant from Cacak escapes with one unharmed member of the 724th Light Regiment. Two members of the band were injured.
Since infantry is no longer available, in view of the operation "Baden", 654th Artillery Regiment with 100 men is to move at 0500 to Lajkovac, from where the raid was first reported and is to establish the facts and return to Valjevo at 0930. The same band fired on another train near the railroad station Prnjavol, directly north of Latkovic.
3d Company of 724th Regiment receives information of a band in the Ravna Gora area, 54 km. southeast of Valjevo, under the leadership of a Serbian colonel.
8/15/1941, Valjevo - 0200-0600 hours at Lajkovac railway station, 24 km. northeast of Valjevo, an ammunition train standing there and a passenger train from Cacak were attacked by a band 80-100 men strong. Station holds out, 4 soldiers and 1 Serb railroad official dead, 7 injured. Band probably withdraws to southwest between the Valjevo-Lajkovac and Lajkovac-Cacak rail lines. Maintenance team 704th Signal Company, which eliminated disturbances on Valjevo-Belgrade line, is also used to reinforce the railroad station. Near Slovac, 16 km. northeast of Valjevo, track damaged by explosion; repaired in 2 hours from Lajkovac railroad station. 1700 hours Cacak-Belgrade train, 3 km. east of Lajkovac, runs into locomotive and is derailed, train was fired on, 30 men going on leave were able to fight their way through to Cacak, 1 injured.
On 8/15/1941 1100 hours, division sends out two platoons of 9th Company 724th Regiment, with 2 field ambulances of field hospital 704, to Lajkovac to protect the railroad station. 2245 hours, 3d Company, 724th Regiment arrives in Lajkovac from Uzice. Lajkovac is connected with the telephone network of the Division. Two platoons of 9th Company, 724th Regiment, return again, on 8/16/1941 0800 hours, to Valjevo with ammunition train.
8/8/1941 - A strong band is reported in the Bukova Forest, 17 km. south of Valjevo.
Twenty meters of railroad track blown up 10 km. east of Obrenovac.
Truck with army mail and maintenance team 704th Signal Company is fired upon 7 km. south of Losnica. Escort detachment takes two prisoners.
The red flag is hoisted between Sabac and Losnica, north of the road as far as the Sava. 2d Battalion 750th Regiment undertakes thrusts from Mitrovica and Sabac to the especially threatened villages of Lipolist (to which 120 Communists have withdrawn), Badovinci, Crnobarski, Glogovac. Near Dublje the railroad station is attacked and a stretch of railroad track torn up. First Company of 2d Battalion 750th Regiment comes into conflict with a band there on 8/19/1941.
8/18/1941, Valjevo - Telephone lines to Sabac and Losnica disturbed. Maintenance team 704th Signal Company eliminates the disturbances. The lines are immediately cut again. Radio connection with 704th Engineer Company in Koviljaca must be established.
1st Battalion 724th Regiment with 5 pursuit detachments of 30 soldiers each, 20 Serbian policemen, 20 Arnauts, in addition 1 platoon of 1st Battery 654th Artillery Regiment, surrounds a band 100 men strong in the Gradina mountains, 11 km. southeast of Uzice; 38 enemy dead, 10 farmhouses burned down, 15 set afire by artillery.
Our losses - 1 Arnaut dead. Booty - 5 light machine guns, 12 rifles, 10 hand grenades, 1 pistol, ammunition, 9 tents, 1 horse, 1 typewriter, 1 town stamp of an attacked town, 2 camp newspapers, camp library with identity cards of personnel, including photographs, railroad tickets, Communist literature, a large stock of hard tack. Fifty to sixty men break through chain of Serbian police and escape to the west, 20 Arnauts pursue them, capture 3 light machine guns and pistols; 3 men and 1 woman shot.
8/18/1941, Valjevo - Reports of a band in Vlasic Forest (15 km. x 5 km. large) 30 km. northwest of Valjevo and in the village of Bukovica, 15 km. northwest of Valjevo.
8/18/1941, Valjevo - Bands are reported around Loznica, Zajaca, and Krupanj.
8/19/1941, Valjevo - 0200 hours. For reinforcement of 3d Battalion 738th Regiment, 1 squad is dispatched on motor cars of the 704th Engineer Company to Krupanj, and 1 squad to Losnica. Eleventh Company 738th Regiment reinforced by Engineer Company of 704th Regiment is by force reconnoitering the road Loznica Sabac in direction Petrovica and Lipolist during the night. Action advanced only up to Prinjavac. There, road blocks and heavy gun fire at around 0400 hours. Village half burnt down. After main attack by the enemy at 0930 enemy sustained 7 dead. Own losses 11th Company 738th Regiment - 7 wounded, 2 seriously, 1 hopelessly. 1 national flag, 1 Soviet flag captured. On the way back 11th Company 738th is so strongly attacked before Losnica that withdrawal must take place over Badovinci and beyond the Drina towards Koviljaca.
8/19/1941, Valjevo - * * * Railway line Uzice/Cacak closed because of unexploded bomb on the railway tracks at Rasna, 4 km. south of Pozega. All telephone communications cut. Bomb will be removed from Uzice.
8/19/1941, Valjevo - * * * Division received report of a Communist band in Sokolplanina at Stave, 15 km. west of Valjevo. Through terror the band is compelling the peasants to join and an attack on Stolica and Krupanj is planned.
816th Military Administration Headquarters Uzice reports According to a report by a peasant from Kapavnik-mountains east of the Ibar valley, about 1000 Chetniks with machine guns and mountain artillery are supposed to be between Raska and Mitrovica, planning to attack Novi Pazar and Mitrovica during the next days. Five hundred men are said to have passed during the last days from the Rogosna mountains, west of the Ibar valley, to the Kapavnik mountains.
8/20/1941, Valjevo - An army mail truck with escorting squad shot at between Ub and Obrenovac. Escort returned fire, no losses. Prior to that, mayor of Valjevo and treasurer were arrested by the band and 105000 dinars robbed from the town treasury. Treasurer set free again.
Band writes to post commander [garrison headquarters] Valjevo that the mayor of Valjevo is to be exchanged for the mother-in-law of Dr. Pantic, arrested because of her son-in-law's Communist activities. Division; orders post commander [garrison headquarters] to forward the request to the authority which arrested Pantic's mother-in-law, probably the SD Belgrade.
Bands attempt to cut supply line into Valjevo. Bakers of Valjevo have closed their shops.
In Zovanje, 7 km. southwest of Valjevo, a band is reported.
2230 hours - Attack of a strong enemy reconnaissance troop on Loznica. 2300 hours quiet again.
Band concentration around Krupanj and Loznica. 704th Engineer Company prepares to leave Valjevo on 8/21/1941.
Antitank company of the 714th Infantry Division and motor truck of 704th Signal Company are shot at several times from cornfields and houses while on their way from Obrenovac to Ub, on the same spot on which the mail bus was shot at this morning. The houses from which the shots came are put to fire. Four dead are recognized on enemy side. Losses - 1 slightly wounded.
Three raiding detachments, 1st Battalion, 734th Regiment (4 officers, 100 enlisted men, plus 92 Albanian soldiers plus 40 Serbian Gendarmes) try to find bands reported in the area of Banja Basta, 26 km. northwest of Uzice on the Drina. No band found.
Long distance communication Valjevo-Loznica-Krupanj disrupted.
8/20/1941, Valjevo - Mine of Zajaca closed, because - on account of Communist threats - workers don't show up for work. Supply of ore for one more day available, then the plant will have to be closed also because of lack of coal.
8/21/1941, Valjevo - Decree of the Serbian Minister of the Interior regarding struggle against Communist bands and restoration of peace and order.
Division orders again to reexamine the security of quarters. SF [express - long distance] - trains Belgrade-Salonika are being made safe by an escort detachment in the strength of one squad of 734th Infantry Regiment.
8/22/1941 - 100 bandits are reported 4 km., south of Osecina in the village of Bojcica, 24 km. west northwest of Valjevo. Raiding operation of the 1st Battalion, 724th Regiment (1 officer and 36 enlisted men of the 4th Company of the 724th Regiment; 1 officer and 25 enlisted men of 592d Regional Defense Battalion; 15 Serbs and 40 Albanian gendarmes) towards Arilje, 12 km. south of Pozega, where bands attacked the village and the Serbian gendarmery sustained the loss of two dead and 4 wounded. Because of the break-down of one motor truck, no success. Bands left one-half hour before raiding detachment arrived in Arilje. During pursuit 5 km. south of Arilje, machine gun shots are fired from cornfields. Enemy fled. Pursuit had to be discontinued because of darkness.
8/22/1941 - One platoon of 3d Battalion, 724th Regiment, riding in motor trucks to Krupanj-Loznica reports - Loznica firmly held by Communists.
8/23/1941 - 816th Military Administration Headquarters, Uzice reports - Band attack on Ivanjica, 236 km. south southwest of Cacak, and the antimony plant there is imminent. Division informed 717th Infantry Division.
In Stupnica, 12 km. southeast of Loznica close to westerly road Valjevo-Loznica, Communists through placards are calling all men between the ages of 16 and 60 for recruitment and are threatening reprisals in case of noncompliance.
Call for mass meeting at monastery Korenita, 10 km. southwest of Loznica on road Stolica-Loznica, where the abbot, teacher, and innkeeper will speak on 8/24/1941 on the subject "Procurement of More Weapons and Ammunition."
8/23/1941, Valjevo - In Klinci, 5 km. southwest of Valjevo, one student arrested for Communist activities.
8/23/1941, Valjevo - LXV Higher [Corps] Command orders to search and surround the village of Grabovac, 14 km. southwest of Obrenovac, presumably the seat of the Communist central agency of the Obrenovac district. Operation is named "Geier".
8/23/1941, Valjevo - Committee - 2 raiding detachments of 734th Infantry Regiment together with 20 Serbian gendarmes from Obrenovac, and 2 groups of a police company of 64th Reserve Police Battalion, Obrenovac; 1 platoon of 734th Infantry Regiment, 2 platoons of 7th Company, 750th Infantry Regiment, Sabac; and 1/2 a platoon of 3d Police Company, 64th Reserve Police Battalion, Sabac, and 30 Serbian gendarmes; 1 raiding detachment of 3d Battalion 724th Regiment, and radio car of 704th Signal Company, and 3 portable radio sections, 654th Artillery Regiment, 1 platoon, 2d Battery, 654th Artillery Regiment, Belgrade.
Course - Encirclement of the place developed according to plan. First Battalion, 734th Regiment, was shot at from cornfield; attacked with parts of 3d Battalion, 734th Regiment; surrounding maneuver unsuccessful since enemy withdrew, presumably because of the very quickly starting fire of the artillery sent forward for support.
Result - Five men shot during flight. One mimeograph machine with Communist pamphlets, one bag of rifles captured. Three houses of not present Communists secured.
One truck with 2 medical soldiers of 704th Field Hospital, scheduled to transport 4 seriously wounded and 1 dead of 2d Battalion 750th Regiment, from operation "Geier" to Sabac, was forced to return because of a wrecked road bridge. There, a unit of 7th Company, 750th Regiment, returning from Sabac also ran into a new fight. Wounded were left in Ub and are being treated by a Serbian doctor.
8/23/1941 - The truck was shot at again on its way to Valjevo with the wounded. Return to Ub.
8/27/1941, Valjevo - 11th Company, 724th Regiment, receives word through middleman that allegedly 26000 well armed Chetniks are in the Cer mountains, 20 km. northeast of Loznica. Their aims are:
1. Struggle against Communism.
2. Struggle against the Ustasha.
3. Prevention of antimony export.
4. Liberation of Serbia.
The middleman wants to arrange for a meeting with the leader of the Chetniks on a hill 9 km. north of Stolica. Three man escort is agreed upon for each side.
8/28/1941 [Sic] Valjevo - At the same time LXV Higher [Corps] Command orders - Bands known to be Chetniks should not be attacked. Distribution of pamphlets originating from Chetniks should not be prevented; communism is to be fought with the help of the national Chetniks.
8/27/1941, Valjevo - Divci, 5 km. east of Valjevo, attacked in the evening. Raiding detachment of the 3d Battalion, 724th Regiment, with 25 Serbian gendarmes states - Serbian gendarmerie fled Divci. Band has plundered archives of the town office. One civilian car shot at, son of a Serbian Nationalist shot, car burnt, small railway bridge wrecked.
8/27/1941, Valjevo - All long distance telephone communications emanating from Valjevo disrupted, except the one to Uzice. The occupation of Priboj, Prijepolje, and Novo Varos by an Italian battalion - reported by Colonel Gialla on 8/26/1941 to the 2d Battalion of 724th Regiment at Visegrad - supposed to go into effect on 8/27/1941, did not take place. Italians advanced only up to Brodarevo, 18 km. south of Prijepolje. Apparently they are pressing forward in the strength of one regiment against the rebellious Montenegrins there, while at the same time deploying bombers from the south against the Croatian units fighting in the north.
8/27/1941, Valjevo - On way back from Koviljaca to Valjevo near Osladic 17 km. northwest of Valjevo, at 1830 hours again shot at by 4 machine guns along a track of 2 km. and attacked with hand grenades.
Own losses - 2 killed, 1 missing, 12 wounded, one of whom seriously, 1 truck burnt out; enemy losses unknown.
One raiding detachment, 3d Battalion, 724th Regiment, which had been sent out at 2000 hours from Valjevo to reinforce the police station Kamenica, 14 km. northwest of Valjevo, which is threatened by bands, was joined by the escort detachment.
Near Osladic a 10-meter wide road-bridge was blown up, according to reports from inhabitants.
8/29/1941, Valjevo - On 8/29/1941, the missing soldier is brought with a sprained ankle to Valjevo by a peasant. He had fallen from the back seat of the cycle through a sudden start, had been captured by the bandits, beaten up, and released after a day, with the remark that they were out for officers only.
9/2/1941, Valjevo - Telephone line Valjevo-Uzice interrupted.
0615 hours, 11th Company 724th Regiment Krupanj reports 9/1/1941, 0700 and 2100 hours. Stolica attacked surprisingly by rather strong enemy forces. One lieutenant, director of the plant, captured, another lieutenant probably killed, the platoon dispersed. One NCO, who was supposed to report on situation at Stolica Zajaca to Krupanj, wounded at strong road block 2 km. before Krupanj. 11th Company 724th Regiment tried to reassemble dispersed soldiers by way of light signals during the night of 9/1-2/1941.
0625 hours, 11th Company, 724th Regiment, reconnoiters with patrol in the direction of Stolica.
0815 hours, LXV Higher [Corps] Command communicates that Croats have committed one battalion Ustasha on the line Koviljaca-Loznica.
0917 hours, Return of reconnaissance patrol to Krupanj with a group of the field guard Stolica. Advance to Stolica impossible, as patrol meets with machine-gun fire from the hills 400 meters before the mine. Twenty men of the field guard still missing, two of which are certainly dead. Krupanj threatened as well, because of gatherings on the surrounding hills. No radio contact with 12th Company, 724th Regiment, which was detailed to Loznica. 11th Company, 724th Regiment, reports gatherings on the hills of Krupanj. Companies prepare for defense.
1045 hours, LXV Higher [Corps] Command orders immediate transportation of a company of 2d Battalion, 724th Regiment, Visegrad, with loading space which it will have to procure for itself, to Valjevo. To 2d Battalion, 724th Regiment, via radio.
9/2/1941, Valjevo - Higher [Corps] Command communicates:
1305 hours, 3d Battalion, 738th Regiment, fighting near Koviljaca and Loznica, forced to withdraw towards east. Croats are trying to cross the Drina near Koviljaca and Zvornik, succeeding only near Zvornik. There, after crossing the Drina, again repulsed.
1555 hours, 11th Company, 724th Regiment, Krupanj, reports - 11 men not yet returned, 2 of them certainly dead. At Stolica 300 kilograms of explosives and 2 machine guns, one of which was made unusable, fell into the hands of the Communists or the Chetniks.
9/2/1941 - 1630 hours, division inquires at LXV Higher [Corps] Command, whether 10th and 11th Company, 724th Regiment, may be withdrawn from Krupanj. Commander Serbia decides that the plant must be held.
1810 hours, LXV Higher [Corps] Command communicates - reconnaissance by aircraft has shown 50 men are defending themselves in the castle of Koviljaca and are under fire from the west. Over Koviljaca the Serbian flag is flying. On the road Loznica-Koviljaca a motor-ambulance burnt out. The aircraft was fired upon from the mountains, had to stop reconnoitering because of engine trouble. 12th Company, 724th Regiment, probably involved in the fighting near Koviljaca.
1820 hours, LXV Higher [Corps] Command communicates - according to report from 718th Infantry Division, 3d Battalion, 738th Regiment, likely to be able to hold out at Koviljaca. On 9/3/1941 the following are to be committed: Antitank Company Lazarevac (714th Infantry Division) via Sabac with 2d Battalion, 750th Regiment, [and] 5 companies of Croatian Ustasha. 2d Battalion 750th Regiment, will get contact with Croatian regimental staff on 9/3/1941. Koviljaca is free.
1835 hours, division orders on telephonic order by LXV Higher [Corps] Command that Krupanj is to be held under all circumstances.
1910 hours, 724th Infantry Regiment reports - Railway line Visegrad-Uzice blocked up by landslide between Vardiste-Mokra Gora. Track will be reopened on 9/3/1941, 1200 hours, 5th Company, 724th Regiment, left on 9/2/1941, 1815 hours; arrival at the place of the accident 2215 hours; change into train from opposite direction from Uzice. Arrival Uzice probably 9/3/1941 0200 hours.
2000 hours, Chetniks, who have surrounded Krupanj, demand surrender, threatening, for the reverse case, slaughtering to the last man.
9/11/1941, Valjevo - 6 wounded transported from Valjevo to Belgrade by a Junkers 52 [German transport plane.].
1025 hours, Staff of the 724th Regiment's 2d Battalion, the 6th and 7th Company of the 724th Regiment, marching from Valjevo to Uzice, are engaged in combat according to air reconnaissance.
1700 hours, another 28 wounded are transported to Belgrade by air. Weapons, rations, mail moved to Valjevo from Belgrade. * * * Railway line Valjevo-Lajkovac again destroyed over a stretch of 100 meters in the vicinity of Slovac.
2000 hours, the 3d Antitank Company of the 220th Regiment reports - railway line Valjevo-Lazarevac-Arandjelovac-Mladenovac open for traffic in the morning of the 12 September, Obrenovac line destroyed. No coal at Lajkovac for the railroad. The 3d Antitank Company of the 220th Regiment has dispersed a band near Stepojevac, but has been unable to destroy them. A band supposed to be 800 strong is reported on the march from Ocedina, 10 km. northwest of Valjevo.
9/11/1941, Valjevo - The division orders the alarm stations to be manned and strict check-up of the approaches to the city on the next morning; also by cavalry patrols in the neighborhood.
9/12/1941, Valjevo - Cattle receipts at Valjevo extremely small. Communist bands prevent delivery of farm products by the peasants around Valjevo. Four armed civilians detained on this occasion. Supply of fresh meat has to be secured by requisitioning in the surrounding villages. Food supply of the civilian population very much endangered.
According to Chetnik reconnaissance the town of Ub completely controlled by Communist rabble. Captured Serbian field policemen and respected citizens are shot dead, looting occurs.
At Banja Basta from 0600 to 1100 skirmish between Communists and Chetniks. German customs officials (22 men) from Ljubovijca and Banja [Banjina] Basta have made their way fighting over the Sokolina, north of Kremna, to Uzice. Bridges between Uzice and Banja [Banjina] Basta blown up. The Chetnik commander Prinska remarked at Banja [Banjina] Basta, showing a German army pistol: "For the rest, we are free Serbs, and we are just waiting for the time when the Germans will have left for good".
In the area 10 km. northwest of Uzice bands several hundred men strong are reported.
9/12/1941, Valjevo - Serbian field police station Divci raided by Communists according to a report, policemen captured, according to another report, forced to go over by the Chetniks. Chetniks posted guards on the road Valjevo-Lajkovac.
Fourth Company, 724th Regiment, is attacked by Communists during the night of 9/12-13/1941. Attack against barracks repelled. On 9/12/1941 4th Company, 724th Regiment, pursues with 2 officers and 37 enlisted men, as well as 10 Serbian field policemen as far as Arilja, incurring the following losses: 2 killed, 1 wounded. Strength and losses of enemy unknown; 1 bandit shot dead, 1 house burned down. Communists are in positions between the 4th Company at Pozega and the fuel depot Jemenicka Stena, which is 3-5 km. to the east of Pozega and protected by 1 platoon, and have occupied Pozega railway station.
9/13/1941 - 0000-0300, Ammunition depot Valjevo is fired upon from three sides with machine guns (tracer bullets), submachine guns and rifles. No casualties. Enemy strength and losses not known.
9/13/1941, Valjevo - Ammunition transports are reported northwest of Valjevo on the road Valjevo-Loznica. At Stave the staff of the bands apparently coming from Krupanj is supposed to be located; those bands are planning an attack against Valjevo. Agents report as the precise date 9/14/1941 0300 hours. Division orders manning of alert positions; the attack does not materialize.
2130 hours, 3d Antitank Company, 220th Regiment, Lazarevac, reports that railway line Lajkovac-Mladenovac was destroyed again by dynamiting at 1700 hours. Two railway engines on their way from Lajkovac to Mladenovac had to turn back. Repair work on the track has started.
Commander of the Kolobara Chetnik detachment writes again to station headquarters Valjevo. There are differences of opinion between him and the Chetnik commanders of Valjevo.
Arrest of a Communist worker in Belgrade, who is in possession of a Communist leaflet, by guard of 734th Infantry Regiment.
Raiding operation by 1st Battalion, 724th Regiment (2 officers and 46 enlisted men of 4th Company, 724th Regiment; 2 officers and 50 enlisted men of 3d Company of 724th Regiment), to Arilje. Houses searched and burned down. People escaping shot at. Army equipment, ammunition, weapons found.
9/15/1941, Valjevo - Bands advancing towards Valjevo from the north, northwest, west, and southeast. Strength unknown; at Stave supposedly 1000 men. Artillery shelling advanced detachments of the Stave band at Kotarci (6 km. west of Valjevo) with surprise fire during the night.
Raiding detachment 1st Battalion, 724th Regiment (2 officers and 28 enlisted men of 1st Company, 724th Regiment; 1 officer and 25 enlisted men of 2d Company, 724th Regiment; 3 officers and 75 enlisted men of 3d Company, 724th Regiment; 1 officer and 25 enlisted men of the 529th Regional Defense Battalion for special missions), goes to Kadinjaca, 4 km. northwest of road intersection Uzice-Visegrad/Uzice-Dub-Banjina Basta; supporter of the bands arrested, whereabouts of the bands ascertained; a farm building in which ammunition was found, burned down.
9/16/1941, Valjevo - 2000 hours, convoy arrives in Valjevo. Behind the convoy the road is against destroyed. Reportedly, a bandit force of approximately 300 men is moving in on Valjevo.
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