GHASTLY STORIES FROM ODESSA
ENEMY ATROCITIES
BOYS AND GIRLS'SET ON FIRE
London, April 12
Moscow correspondents say that ghastly stories are reaching Moscow of German and Rumanian atrocities which were carried out in Odessa before the evacuation.
The Gestapo and the Rumanian police, only a few hours before they left, locked up 85 young boys and girls in a cellar, drenched them with paraffin and set fire to them. Hundreds of Russians'who took refuge in the catacombs of Odessa are low emerging pale, bearded and half-starved. They tell how, with wireless sets, they followed the Red Army’s progress towards Odessa, wrote out the Russian communiques in pencil ond circulated these in primitive newspapers throughout the city from hand to hand. Moscow radio said among those killed in Odessa were famous academicians, scientists and professors of Odessa university. Piles of corpses were found at Gestapo headquarters.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13427, 14 April 1944, Page 5
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