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Troops Knroule Home From Russian Conquests LoadedWith BootyBY ERNEST Gr rjSCHER WITH THE RUMANIAN ARMY AT TIRASPOL, Occupied Russia Oct. HI— (Delayed)—Day and night the tramp of boots and the clatter of horseshoes echo through the cob-blestoned streets of this ancient city on the Dniester as a section of the Rumanian armed forces, loaded with booty, returns home from Russian conquests.Rumanian officers SRy the Russian war is over for them except for a cavalry corps, and perhaps two more corps1, which will continue to represent Rumania in what they call a ‘'common European front against Bolshevism.(Anvwhere from 100,000 lo 250,0001 ' men might be. included In llirse corps.)Apparently the Rumanians regard their territorial ambitions satisfied with an advance to the Bug river, from 50 lo 100 miles beyond their 1939 frontier at the Dniester.Sckc Horses, v»^s One returning contingent was strung out fcr approximately 20 miles and was hours passing through this city. These troops were afoot and mounted, but mostly lode hundreds of horse-drawn wagons laken as war booty in the Ukraine.• In contrast to the highly motorized army still moving eastward oneing a single norsc in me neius.Tiie land remains unplowed and unseericd, farmers said, liecause both Ihelr work animals and their tractors have been pressed Into war service.(This would appear to mean that the German* will draw very little grain from their Ukraine conquests for another year at least. Most of the wheat grown In the Ukrnlue is winter wheat, and should be in the ground before new if it is to yield a crop next year.)Now these war*weary horse,1;, before the wislfut e.vcfi of Ukrnnlan; farmers, were being prorlrlcd across the Dniester.STALIN’S PURGE IS JUST 11-1 ED BY EX-AMBASSADOR(By Assocliil'.d Pressj NEW YORK. Oct. 30—Joseph E, i Davie*, former U. S. ambassador to Moscow, says he believe# the Russian purge3 Cf the lust decade were intended by Joveph Stalin to eliminate German and Japanese spies within the nation.; Much of liio world construed the famou= treason tt'hjs and purge* from 1935 to 1930 to he outrageous example* of barbarism, ingratitude and hysteria,” he writes in the American magazine, out tomorrow. “In the light of prC'-Ciit facts and alter an exapitnolion pf the record then can be no doubt that those defendant's were in the employ of the acr-mau and Japanese high com-
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Benton Harbor News Palladium
Benton Harbor, Michigan, US
Thu, Oct 30, 1941
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