GERMAN CASUALTIES
ESTIMATED AT 400,000 NAZI STORY DENIED (Omclai Wireless) (Received July 5, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, July 4 A recent German official statement of casualties is treated with scepticism in authoritative circles. The Germans state that they lost 10,000 killed between May 10 and June 4, and 17,000 killed between June 5 and June 25. As French resistance was very slight during the latter period it is improbable that the German losses were greater than during the earlier period, when the Dutch. Belgians, french and British were all fighting. A significant fact is that the German wireless on May 25 asked the public to realise that the German casualties to that date were not as high as on the Somme in 1916, when the total casualties were estimated a*600,000. Although calcualtion is difficult it is estimated here that the German casualties from May 10 to the end of the war in France were 400,000. Two United States warships, including the cruiser Omaha, arrived at Lisbon. It is understood the United States destroyer Barry has gone to Bilbao to take the Ambassador to London and resume contact with the Polish Government.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21157, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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