TUNISIAN VICTORY
RESOLUTION IN PARLIAMENT. STATEMENT ON CASUALTIES. LONDON, May 18. Resolutions thanking the Allied trooos for their brilliant victory in Tunisia were passed in both Houses of Parliament in London to-day. The Deputy-Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) said that the number of Axis casualties since Italy entered the war now totalled 627,000, compared with 227,000 casualties from Britain and the Empire. , „ The Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg) said that the number of Axis prisoners taken was nearly 490,000, 142,000 being Germans and more than 347,000 Italians. Against those figures the~ British prisoners were only about 150,000.
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Grey River Argus, 21 May 1943, Page 5
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