ALMOST DESTROYED
6TH GERMAN ARMY IN STALINGRAD
LONDON, January 26. Moscow has announced that the German Sixth Army, trapped " outside Stalingrad, now numbers only 12,000 men out of a former total of 200,000 men. The Moscow announcement reviews the fighting in the ten days which have elapsed since the Russians' ultimatum to the Germans to surrender, which was refused. Out of 80,000 troops on January 16 40,000 have been killed and 28,000 taken prisoner. The remaining 12,000 are now being mopped up. These troops are in two groups, one in the northern part: of the city and one near the centre. Moscow anticipates that the operations should be completed in two or three days. The booty captured includes 1297 tanks, nearly 3000 guns, 49,000 rifles, and 553 aircraft. A Berlin commentary states that every German soldier and everybody in Germany must be thinking of the hard-pressed German army at Stalingrad. _______________________
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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