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RUSSIA & NAZI TROOPS POSITION ON LITHUANIAN FRONTIER. UNDISGUISED HOSTILITY SHOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 4. The Lisbon correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph'” says a party of Roman Catholic clergy on their arrival from Lithuania report that Russia has completely cut off the country’s foreign news services. They state that Kaunas is an armed camp full of troops, who are occupying every important building, and Russians and Germans face each other across the frontier with undisguised hostility. Both Russia and Germany, they state, are rapidly completing fortifications and are evacuating the frontier zones. Russian officials freely boast of a day when the Soviet will overrun a defeated Germany. Civilians on the Russian side have been evacuated to a distance of 15 miles from the frontier, and the Germans have evacuated a zone one mile deep. Thousands of workers on both sides are building concrete defence works, digging trenches and erecting barbed wi re.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1941, Page 5
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156FACE TO FACE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1941, Page 5
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