NAZI ATROCITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 5

NAZI ATROCITIES

IN EASTERN FiNMARK

t= * 01*001^ December 4. Between 18,000"and 20,000 out of a total of 23,000 inhabitants of eastern Finmark have evaded deportation by the Germans, the Norwegian Minister of Justice, Mr. Wold, disclosed after returning from a visit to Kirkenes and other liberated areas in eastern Finmark.

Wold, who has brought' back the first detailed account of the conditions in this part of.Norway, said the German destruction was everywhere catastrophic, and the German atrocities could scarcely be described. All habitations in eastern Finmark were more or less destroyed. -

"Those who have seen this vast ruined region in the Arctic will remember the sight for the rest of-their

STRONG DEFENCE

ALLIED THRUSTS IN ITALY

LONDON, December 4. There has been more heavy fighting on the Adriatic side of Italy, where Eighth Army troops, are thrusting at the German defences between Faenza and Ravenna. Attacks are being made over muddy, ground against bitter enemy resistance. Every house, building, or rising ground that will serve as cover in the marshy plain is being turned by the Germans into a strongpoint to defend their line ■ from the coast to Faenza.

, South-west of Faenza troops of an Indian division of the Fifth Army have gained more ground in stiff hill fighting under conditions of rain and fog. Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 4. The Eighth. Army continues to make progress against strong resistance between the Mohtone and Lamone Rivers, reports an Allied communique. Indian and British troops on the right flank of the Fifth Army occupied further enemy ; positions. American forces of the Fifth Army in the central sector • repulsed several attacks, with losses -to the enemy. A strong enemy attack forced our troops to withdraw from a hill feature four miles north of Porrettaterme, 32 miles south-west of Bologna.