SCORCHED EARTH.
BURNING RUSSIAN VILLAGE. NAZI POLICY WEST OF DNIEPER. (Rec. 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Oct, 10.. The dull red glow of 100 blazing villages to-night lights up the skyline west of the Dnieper. The Germans are setting fire to the villages in a desperate attempt to create a scorch ed earth zone which Avill give them time to disengage. The Red Air Force has already wrested the initiative from the Luftwaffe over the Dnieper. Correspondents agree • that, the strength of the German resistance shows that the High Command has decided to fight it out on the Dnieper line. The Soviet Army newspaper “Red Star” says that documents found on captured German officers prove that the enemy meant to stand on the Dnieper line, but he has been pushed back by a superior army. The initiative is now entirely with the Red Army. The “Izvestia” asserts that the Russian advance on the west bank achieved such depths at some places that German shells cannot reach the river.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 310, 11 October 1943, Page 4
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