ENEMY TESTIMONY
DESTRUCTION BY RETREATING’ RUSSIANS VILLAGES REDUCED TO ASHES. SMOLENSK RAZED TO GROUND. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. The 'Germans themselves reveal the extent of the Rusisan scorched earth policy. A Berlin radio message states that vast expanses of forest country northwards of Lake Ladoga are aflame. The Russians are laying waste everything as they retreat. The Finnish troops find deserted and ruined villages. The Berlin news agency said that hundreds of villages have been reduced to ashes. Eastwards of Smolensk the Russians practised wholesale destruction. Retrealing tanks pour incendiary bullets into the thatched roofs of buildings,, causing enormous fires. The Berlin correspondent of the Spanish newspaper “A.8.C.” says that by torch and dynamite, the Russians have razed Smolensk to the ground. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 6
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130ENEMY TESTIMONY Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 6
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