SCORCHED EARTH POLICY
WHAT GERMAN PRISONERS SAY (Rcc. 10 a.m.) Rugby, Aug. 5. A Moscow communique states; “Thirty-live prisoners taken in the direction of Byela Tserkov said they had subsisted on cats, dogs and field mice and had been tortured by thirst because the peasants had destroyed everything, including the wells. Soviet planes gave them no rest day or night so they were unable to dig wells.”—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 6 August 1941, Page 5
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67SCORCHED EARTH POLICY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 6 August 1941, Page 5
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