The Nazis have threatened the complete destruction of Leningrad, the former capital imperial Russia, if the magnificent resistance which the Russians have been putting up is continued. The threat is plea! in its ruthlessness and barbarity of What the world has come to expect from these modern vandals, to whom nothing is Sacred, and everything is a military objective. It is another attempt at terrorism on the Great scale, but it has not worked. Marshal Clementi Voroshilov. the Soviet Commander in the northern sector of the two thousand miles front, answered the German threat by issuing an order to the defenders to hold out until the last, Leningrad will never fall an easy prey to the invaders as did Paris, and it remains to be seen whether the Nazis. despite their recent claim now to be within artillery range of the city, are able to carry out their threat. If they are and subsequently succeed in occupying the city, they will have the comfort of knowing that they are responsible for creating a heap of ruins of what is today a great and beautiful city, and that Srey one have made the place vet far the aerial defences sovereigns contributed their
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