CHEPOVICHI TAKEN
NAZI RECORD OF HORROR Recd. 6 p.m. _ London, Nov. 15. A Soviet night communique reports that troops of the First Ukrainian Army captured Chepovichi, on the Kiev-Warsaw railway, less than 20 miles south-east of Korosten. A report by the Soviet Atrocity Commission states that the Germans lit human bonfires before being driven from the liberated areas of Russia. In one of these holocausts 270 old men, women and children were burned alive in a barn at a village in Chernigov Province. The report adds that the Germans deliberately starved to death tens of thousands of Russian prisoners. Over 50,000 civilians were killed by hunger, torture, and shooting in the Donbas. Paris radio declares that crack Russian forces are attacking in the Nevel and Gomel sectors, where the Germans have been forced to modify their lines at some points. The German communique admits that the Russians penetrated the German positions south-west of Gomel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 272, 17 November 1943, Page 5
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