CITY IN RUINS

Grey River Argus, 10 November 1944, Page 4

CITY IN RUINS

SERBIAN CAPITAL. (Rec. 8.45.) LONDON, Nov. 9. A Reuter correspondent, the first British journalist to reach Belgrade after its liberation says: Shrunken frames and lined faces show< the horrors and hardships -that the people have suffered for three years. Everywhere there are the signs of heavy bombing, first by the Germans in 1941, and later by the Allies. Most of the big buildings are mere empty shells. The great marshalling yards and the railway stations are wildernesses. A.ll of the river barges except one, are smashed. Quays are lined with sunken ships and barges. There is hardly one house in the centre of the city that does not bear marks of recent street fighting. Some streets are still full of derelict tanks and burnt-out cars. More than twenty thousand German dead have been taken from the city. A few Germans and Several dangerous Quislings are still hiding in the ruins. ____________