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WHOLE GERMAN DIVISION NINE THOUSAND MEN KILLED OR WOUNDED.
HEAVY CAPTURE OF TANKS & OTHER MATERIAL.
(Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 13. A supplementary Russian communique, detailing the claim to have annihilated the 68th German Division in a battle around an unnamed railway station, states that the Germans sent the division by air to the station, in an attempt to , turn the right flank of the Russians and penetrate their rear in order to cut off Russian units occupying the station, but the manoeuvre was found out in time. The Russians repelled several German attacks and then counter-attack-ed. After a three-day battle, they annihilated the division. The Germans left 9,000 dead and wounded on the battlefield as well as 19 tanks, 27 guns, three anti-aircraft batteries, 24 mine-throwers, 70 machine-guns, 600 automatic rifles and much other material.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 5
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