NOTHING LEFT
AS PLUNDER FOR INVADERS DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIAN CROPS. GERMAN RADIO COMPLAINT. LONDON, July 14. The Soviet Embassy, giving some details of the working of Russia’s scorched earth policy, says that at one village which the Germans were approaching the local people loaded all movable ’grain into railway trucks, and what could not be removed was burnt. The growing corn was trampled down in the fields and tractors destroyed the grain by squeezing it into the earth. The German radio today complained that when the Germans captured the most westerly Russian radio station they found that everything had been smashed by the retreating Russian troops. “Not a small instrument escaped their hammer blows,” the announcer said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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117NOTHING LEFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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