TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION
GERMAN FORCE TRAPPED
(Received Sept. 27, noon) LONDON, Sept. 26
The Smolensk area is a lurid example of the German tactics in creating a dead zone in the path of retreat, states a message from Moscow.
One of the most serious effects is the destruction of a large section of the modern Moscow-Minsk highway mile by mile as the Germans retired. One of the innumerable craters which the Germans left is 25 feet deep, with a diameter of over 140 feet.
Thousands of Germans perished in the Dnieper river when the Soviet mobile artillery suddenly approached and shelled the Soiovievsky bridge at short range. Trapped between fire and water the Germans vainly sought shelter behind trucks and guns. Others ended the horror by hurling themselves into the river.
Soviet bombers and stormoviks completed the annihilation.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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