Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-12-15 | Page 3 | Typhus Plague Hits Europe

Typhus Plague Hits Europe I I IBy By United Press Stockholm newspaper dispatches from Berlin reported that a severe epidemic of typhus had broken out in occupied German-occupied Poland white Russia and Baltic republic areas and that all schools in the German- German occupied Ukraine had been closed because of epidemics The British radio quoted Finnish newspapers as reporting typhoid among German soldiers in the Vila and Brest areas and as expressing fear that the Russians at Leningrad might force a a. general German retreat The Germans were described as insufficiently equipped for winter warfare