BLASTED TO RUINS
FATE OF VIBORG CITY (Reed. Sept. 8, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7. A special correspondent of the New York Times who was permitted to enter Viborg with the Finnish force. 1 says that of the city of 120,000 people nothing whatever remains. It wa: blasted to ruins by the Russians before they withdrew. They left one-man fox holes where Red volunteers made last stands. They could not be ferretted out by ordinary means and had to be blasted out with their machine-guns by heavy artillery. Death rained upon those defenders long after the last of them had died in a veritable hell of bombardment.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20655, 8 September 1941, Page 5
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