EARLY SPRING
DEVELOPING IN SOUTH RUSSIA RAINS IMPEDING ENEMY RETREAT. AND RUSSIAN PURSUIT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, February 10. With the fall yesterday of Byelgorod, the Russians are now in a nearly complete semi-circle round Kharkov, at a distance 30 to 40 miles. North of the city a great breach has been made by the Russians extending about 130 miles nearly to Orel and Bryansk. Unusually mild weather is reported already to be leading to an early spring in South Russia, especially the Kuban area, where melting snows and rains have washed out roads, impeding both the retreat of the Germans and the advance of the Russians, NAZI CANNIBALISM CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT. BODIES FOUND WITH PORTIONS CARVED OUT. LONDON, February 9. A correspondent of the British United Press in a dispatch from Stalingrad says that he saw several bodies in cellars and courtyards there from which large portions had been carved out, providing evidence that the Germans were forced to resort to some cannibalism'in the last days of their resistance,-5
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1943, Page 3
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