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Russians Teach Germans Art Of Total Defence

LONDON, Sept. 15 A tribute was paid to. the Russian people and the city of Leningrad in a broadcast by Mr. Frank Owen, editor of the London “Evening Standard.” He stated: “The world stands in astonishment and awe before the Russian miracle—the superb rising of 190,000,000 people as one man against the invader. “The Russians have given a new meaning to total war. With Hitler this meant only total destruction. The Russians have taught the barbarous Germans something stronger, namely, total defence. “What cannot be defended against the enemy shall at any rate be denied him. Sublime Sacrifice “These peasants have left nothing on their earth except their dead men, women and children, not a laggard, not a coward and not a Quisling among them. We are in the presence of one of the sublime acts of history. “The Russians have paid for their devotion. There was Smolensk that blocked the road to Moscow. It does not exist any more. Gomel was a fortress. It is a tomb. “This is the kind of price for a battle that has gone on for 90 days and nights, with no respite, and no relief, the greatest and grimest mechanised massacre of all time. Nazi Target of Day “Now Leningrad stands in the path of the Germans. It has the honour, with London, to be the Nazi target of the day. The bombers that have pounded us and now pound Leningrad are the same, and are bombing with the same terrible purpose—the destruction of the last barriers against Nazism. “What Leningrad endures tonight has been our lot and will be so again if this great fortress is now reduced. In the furnace of Leningrad our fate is cast and there, on that cruel anvil, is now being welded the common destiny of all the brave, patient, unconquerable, common people of this earth.”

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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1941, Page 5

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Russians Teach Germans Art Of Total Defence Northern Advocate, 16 September 1941, Page 5

Russians Teach Germans Art Of Total Defence Northern Advocate, 16 September 1941, Page 5

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