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The Montreal Gazette reported the capture of the important Greek fortress:{{cquote|About 25 miles south of Lake Ochrid, Koritza is a road junction whence a road leads eastwards to Florina, hinge of the present British-Greek line confronting the Axis armies. Fast columns of Bersaglieri on motor cycles and in armored cars entered Koritza at 12.30 p.m. today and captured "numerous prisoners and arms of every kind including several batteries of cannon," it was claimed.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?dat=19410415&hl=enKORITZA&id=in0tAAAAIBAJ&nid=1946&pg=3136,2463178&sjid=xZgFAAAAIBAJ KORITZA TAKEN ITALIANS CLAIM, April 15, 1941]</ref>}}
The Montreal Gazette reported the capture of the important Greek fortress:{{cquote|About 25 miles south of Lake Ochrid, Koritza is a road junction whence a road leads eastwards to Florina, hinge of the present British-Greek line confronting the Axis armies. Fast columns of Bersaglieri on motor cycles and in armored cars entered Koritza at 12.30 p.m. today and captured "numerous prisoners and arms of every kind including several batteries of cannon," it was claimed.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?dat=19410415&hl=enKORITZA&id=in0tAAAAIBAJ&nid=1946&pg=3136,2463178&sjid=xZgFAAAAIBAJ KORITZA TAKEN ITALIANS CLAIM, April 15, 1941]</ref>}}
Lieutenant-Colonel Guglielmo Scognamiglio, Commanding Officer of the 4th Bersaglieri Regiment, was killed in action and posthumously awarded the Gold Medal For Military Valour, the Italian equivalent of the American Medal of Honor.<ref>[http://www.combattentiliberazione.it/movm-dal-1935-al-7-sett-1943/scognamiglio-guglielmo SCOGNAMIGLIO Guglielmo]</ref>
Lieutenant-Colonel Guglielmo Scognamiglio, Commanding Officer of the 4th Bersaglieri Regiment, was killed in the [[Second Battle of Ponte Perati]] and posthumously awarded the Gold Medal For Military Valour, the Italian equivalent of the American Medal of Honor.<ref>[http://www.combattentiliberazione.it/movm-dal-1935-al-7-sett-1943/scognamiglio-guglielmo SCOGNAMIGLIO Guglielmo]</ref>
Lieutenant-Colonel Achille Lauro, a Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 139th Infantry Regiment from the Bari Division was also in the fighting for Perati Bridge on 22 April and posthumously awarded the Gold Medal For Military Valour<ref>[http://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/13130 LAURO Achille]</ref>, testament of the bravery of the Greek soldiers.
On 17 April, British General Henry Maitland Wilson wrote that Greek defeatism, ''"was now getting widespread"''. That evening the Greek Prime Minister, Alexander Korizis, retired into his study and shot himself after telling the Greek King II that ''"he felt he had failed him in the task entrusted to him"''.
On 17 April, British General Henry Maitland Wilson wrote that Greek defeatism, ''"was now getting widespread"''. That evening the Greek Prime Minister, Alexander Korizis, retired into his study and shot himself after telling the Greek King II that ''"he felt he had failed him in the task entrusted to him"''.