PLOESTI A TORCH
NAZIS' PARTING GIFT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec.l p.m. LONDON, August 31. Before the Germans left Ploesti they set fire to the oil installations, and some of the Russian detachments had to fight a way into Ploesti through walls of flame. The British United Press correspondent in Moscow says that Russian chemical experts and Rumanian engineers are wrestling with the blazing oilfields. Not a single street in Ploesti remains untouched by fire. Street battles went on all night in the middle of this inferno. -Despite the Russians' record-breaking advance from Bazau to prevent the Germans completing the destruction of the oilfields, the enemy succeeded in setting fire to oil pits and blowing up many pipes and refineries. Several plants were com-1 pletely wrecked. "' ] "The "Isvestia" states that the Russians arrived in the nick of time to I help the Rumanian troops to confine the fires. The entire < population of Ploesti joined in the fight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 6
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