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...Romans themselves had few qualms about incorporating chemical warfare into their tactics. Roman armies routinely poisoned the wells of cities they were besieging, particularly when campaigning in western Asia. According to the historian Plutarch, the Roman general Sertorius in 80 B.C. had his troops pile mounds of gypsum powder by the hillside hideaways of Spanish rebels. When kicked up by a strong northerly wind, the dust became a severe irritant, smoking the insurgents out of their caves. The use of such special agents "was very tempting," says Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist and author of Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion...
...with thought of this hidden strength that Finland's Helsingin Sanomat cried anxiously: "The Eastern front is moving an enormous step closer toward Europe's frontiers." It was with the same thought that the Wehrmacht's mouthpiece, Captain Ludwig Sertorius, admitted somberly last week: "It is not yet clear where and when the retreat will halt...
Ready In the West. Said a German military commentator, Captain Ludwig Sertorius: "The huge British and American army reserves massed in Algeria and Morocco are enough to form not one but several armies. . . . The Allied high command . . . is planning a. landing maneuver on a large scale...
Captain Ludwig Sertorius, military commentator for the German Transocean News Service, said: "The German counteroffensive has shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...
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