VAST DESTRUCTION BY SOVIET FORCES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 168, 18 July 1941, Page 7

VAST DESTRUCTION BY SOVIET FORCES

IN EMMY'S PATH

Nazi Transport Problems Growing Intense

United Press Association.—Copyright

Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, July 17,

The Vichy news agency's military correspondent has described the activities of the battalions of destruction, in carrying out Stalin's scorched earth" policy, who use name-throwers, dynamite and special equipment to blow up bridges and burn public utility buildings and forests.

A special machine called the lyre Js used for wrecking railways, rowed by a powerful locomotive, it not only rips up the rails and sleepers but tears up the track bed.

Authoritative circles in London Jut that Germany's transport c .i u ies . have been greatly aggravated by the closing of the transport « goods through Siberia. The Germans are still trying to obtain supPi? 0I ? * ran > but the only way L e « open 18 by road through Turkey. »«i /P° r t fr° m Sweden by way of win-ferry service through the South oaitic has also been hindered.

ni^fK an ea communications in the ? ea i i lave been seriously hamy the attacks of the Red air force on Rumanian ports.

Bumanians Join Russians

Wat communique says there th e pft nt fighting last night in no a ? Porkhov sectors, but there e fighting occurred and the sl § n ificant change in other afao Sof Russian troops in their ,? ovlet Planes continued ®echan?«H ra s a Sainst enemy enomt^ ed umts and destroyed dromes ?ft S or L the ground at aeroand Rum^ er rout of German wwterlv c? ?" units in the southHon, brin«?in2 r \u , Rumaruan batta°ver tn tli t^le . lr officers, went over throf Russians and handed machine-cimo a /^!" tank guns, 12 radio ataflrm « rifles, a mobile Mantity df Ath cars anfl a large I>urinV f £ h « r u war materials, sector Poison , gi ] lln F in another Into the 'enf tanks broke through France cau«^i y p V ear ' Their a P* two GermntiK I suc ' l confusion that &each other b i ogan fl , ring Russian &uff ercd casualties. ? damaging greatly ti°ns an 3 e ' u,rn y s rear posib®tween thp rv: communications w '<le area. man units over a

ktest reports vf i: according to Jid have ripj, dve i , )een most active te 'ephone lines t^ lc B , ' a Ph and c «nes in the German rear.