GERMAN HOPES DASHED
COSTLY COUNTER-ATTACKS (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Apl. 19. The Germans have now lost nearly 6000 troops in their series of counterattacks in the Kuban pocket, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. The great hopes the German Command placed on these counter-attacks have been dashed. In spite of reinforcements brought from the Crimea the Germans have gained no ground, and the Red Army is still pressing them hard.’ The latest front-line despatches report fierce clashes with Germans and Rumanians. The, Luftwaffe is most active, attacking the Russian frontline divisions all day at a heavy cost. According to incomplete figures, 25 German planes were shot down and 8 damaged yesterday. At the other end of the Russian front, eight German aircraft were brought down in an air battle at the approaches to Leningrad, and 19 were destroyed in a raid against a German aerodrome. #
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Otago Daily Times, Volume 25205, Issue 25205, 20 April 1943, Page 3
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