GERMANS CLASH
AFFRAY IN BRUSSELS Rec 12 10 p.m. LONDON, July 26. Twenty-three German officers were killed yesterday in a shooting affray between Nazi Black Guards and regular German army officers at Brussels, according to reports from Stockholm. The clash is one of many which aie reported from the occupied territories as Hitler's agents attempt to weed out anti-Nazi elements from the German aiHitier has ordered the Black Guards and the Gestapo agents to drop whatever they have been doing and concentrate on purging the German army. Gordon Young. Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Express," says that Major Martin Sommerfeldt, German High Command spokesman, told neutral correspondents in Berlin that Germany Avas approaching catastrophe. Sommerfeldt had been drinking, and Avas excited, some of the correspondents told Mr. Young. The correspondent states: "My informants. Avho are reliable, said that Nazi officials who overheard Sommerfeldt ivere horrified, and immediately ended the Press conference." . Berlin radio announced that the Storm Troop group leader and Licu-tenant-General of Police, Wilhelm Grimm, was killed in an accident during a service parade. Gauleiter Geisler represented Hitler at his funeral.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 5
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