BATTLE FOR NARVA
SKY RED FROM GUN FLASHES Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 18. Reuters correspondent in Stockholm quotes the German-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau as saying that the Russians and Germans are concentrating great masses of heavy artillery on the banks of the Narva River, in Estonia. "The battle is hourly increasing in intensity," the correspondent adds. "The sky over Narva is dyed a fiery red from the flashes of hundreds of guns." The Helsinki correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet states that the Germans have ordered the evacuation of Rakvere, 70 miles west of Narva.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1944, Page 5
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