BIG RUSSIAN GAINS IN UPPER SILESIA
N.Z.P.A. and B.O.W.—Copyright.—Rec. noon RUGBY, March 22. Big Russian gains in Upper Silesia, including the capture of the road and rail centre and industrial town of Oppeln, are announced in the following Order of the Day by Marshal Stalin: "Troops of the First Ukrainian Front, having broken into the enemy's defences west said south of Oppeln, advanced 25 miles in each direction and ousted the German Army grouping in the area south-west of Oppeln. "As a result of this fighting troops of this front captured up to 15,000 Germans, 464 guns and a great quantity of other weapons and war material. In the course of the offensive the troops captured in Silesia the towns of Neustadt, Cosel, Steinau, Zulz, Krappiz, Ober-Glogau and Falkenberg, as well as 400 other inhabited localities."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1945, Page 5
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