Helsinki, June 21.
Refugees who recently escaped from Esthonia across he Finnish Gulf to Finland declared yesterday that Soviet authorities had created a "pelt of destruction" 60 miles wide along the German-Lithuanian fronties in preparation for any possible hostilities, The Russians evacuated entire populations from several coastal districts throughout the entire Baltic area. They destroyed bridges and railways, and burned or blew up houses and entire villages in the "belt of devastation."
These refugees asserted that the Russians recently had arrested a great many "undesirables" in the three ex-Baltic nations of Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania—United Press.
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