STRENGTH OF AXIS FORCES
ESTIMATED AT 1,000.000 | SUMMER AIMS NOT ACHIEVED | (.Rec. 10.30 a.m.) Rugby, Sept. 27. •- ; The Germans have at least 1,000,000 e ; men fighting in and near Stalingrad as 1- I well as several thousand tanks and airs ■ craft according to M. Alexandrov, n | Soviet propaganda chief. With this con- - ■ centration the Germans planned to ese I tablish a front from Stalingrad to the | Caspian Sea along the Volga after g i which they would launch a new offeny I sive against Moscow and then against h Britain. With the Black Sea ports of Tuapse, e Sochi and Poti still in Soviet hands, M. Alexandrov asserts that the Germans e failed to achieve their summer aims on g the southern front. I Enumerating conditions for ultimate . victory over the German army. M. Alexe androv says: “The time is not far dis- § tant when our Allies will bring into _ action their armies against the com--1; mon enemy.” * j The growing activity of guerrillas is j j also cited as a factor which will bring s victory to the Red Army.—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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