DEATH IN DNIEPER
THOUSANDS OF GERMANS PERISH TRAPPED BY SOVIET MOBILE ARTILLERY. BRIDGE SHELLED AT SHORT RANGE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, September 26. Thousands of Germans perished in the Dnieper when Soviet mobile artillery suddenly approached and shelled the Solovievsky Bridge at short range. Trapped between fire and water, tlqe Germans ‘vainly sought shelter behind trucks and guns. Others ended the horror by hurling themselves into the river. Soviet bombers and Stormoviks completed the annihilation. The Smolensk area is a lurid example of German tactics of creating a dead zone in the path of their retreat, states a Moscow message. One .of the most serious effects is the destruction of a large section of the modern Mos-cow-Minsk highway, mile by mile, as ithe Germans retired. One of the innumerable craters which the Germans left is 25 feet deep with a diameter of over 140 feet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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