The Archive · 1941

Leningrad Doomed Within Two Weeks, German Papers Claim

Berlin, Sept. 19.

LARING banner lines on the front pages of Berlins morning newspapers today predicted that Leningrad would be subjected to a fate worse than that which befell Warsaw within a "couple of weeks" at the latest.

The "Voelkischer Beobachter" said, "Bolshevik proclamation: Leningrad city's millions to commit suicide."

This newspaper added that it hoped from a purely humanitarian viewpoint the civilian population of Leningrad would be sensible enough to oyer-rwe the orders of ihe Red authorities and surrender the city to Germans without continuing fighting and suffering terrible losses.

ches from focal points of the ions—Leningr: chee behind Klev—Luftwaffe, activity D.N.B. also featured a despetca from the Leningrad front which men-oner the destruction of "buperheavy" Russian tanks during Soviet counter-attacks.—United Press.

Finnish Troops Cross Svir River Stockholm, Sept. 18.

Finnish troops today crossed the Svir River at a point near Svirsk, a railway station on the east bank of the River.

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Nazis Quiet on Crimean Advance rik uth the Svir River at several other points.

A Finnish column is now attempt-

German sources declined to in- in. occupy the town of Lodeinoie dicate how far the Nazi troops had advanced toward Crimea—Naraiskaya lown is parti; y in flames, steppe was the only place—whose been set on fire by the retreating

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