REPAIRING DAMAGE.
LIBERATED AREAS IN RUSSIA. HEAVY LOSSES IN OCCUPATION. LONDON, January 21. ' The “Soviet War News” reports that the Soviet of Moscow is organising the rehabilitation of the liberated areas. The Germans have destroyed practically the whole basis of the economic life of these areas. Agriculture has suffered a tremendous blow through the destruction of thousands of farmsteads, farm stores, cattle stalls and granaries, and the same thing has happened to industry. The Germans blew tip all factories which were evacuated before their arrival, including the large textile mills at Yakhroma, Naryfominsk and Vysolcoie. They damaged the Volga-Moscow canal and- destroyed many local productive enterprises and innumerable schools. Wherever the Germans stayed they destroyed libraries and used books for fuel. They burned collective farm nurseries and demolished a number of hospitals. Moscow is now virtually back to normal, and loads of machinery, evacuated when Moscow was almost in the front line, arrive each day to be reinstalled in the city’s factories.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 87, 23 January 1942, Page 3
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