The Archive · 1941

Destruction in Belgrade

Budapest, Apr. 13.

Heavy casualties among the civilian population of Belgrade resulted from last week's air raids and many. corpses were lying in the streets Friday, according to Mr. Outerbridge Horsey, an American vice-consul who returned here today from a visit to the Yugoslav capital.

Disruption of the municipal services. was so great that no reliable estimate of the total number of casualties was, available, Mr, Horsey said.

The business district of the the railway station suffered specially during the' spectacular raid staged on the took 215 prisoners, sank eleven severe damage, he Press.

Germans, British, Xugosiavs Tangle London, Apr. 13.

British and German air. forces, armoured advance guards and infantry detachments carried out systematic attacks during the past 24 hours in efforts to disrupt each others concentrations and advance lines in reparation for joining in a major barile of the Balkans, said reports here yesterda; At the same time, reports came from Athens and Istanbul that Yugoslavs had launched a violent counteroffensive northwest of Skoplje in an attempt to recapture the strategic city. troops were inflicting severe losses on Germans in mountain Sghting, it was said. 'The Yugoslavs'

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