HUNDREDS OF FINNS
AMONG KILLED & WOUNDED THE ENEMY ROADS OF RETREAT LITTERED WITH BODIES & MATERIAL. GUNS TURNED AGAINST AXIS FORCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 13. “Several hundred Finnish soldiers were among 2,000 of the enemy killed and wounded on the central front yesterday,” says the Moscow radio. “The roads on which the Russians are moving westwards 'are littered with hundreds of bodies of Fascist officers and men. German lorries, cars and artillery stand in long lines. Ammunition is scattered everywhere, undamaged guns are immediately turned against the Germans who abandoned them.” An “Izvestia” correspondent in the Crimea reports that the enemy is clinging to his defences, vainly striving to disengage and re-entrench. The Russians are inflicting heavy losses. GERMAN GENERALS TWENTY-FIVE RESIGNATIONS. FOLLOWING ON DISMISSAL OF VON ERAUCHITSCH. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) ZURICH. January 13. It is reliably reported from Berlin that 25 leading German generals, including General von Kleist resigned following Marshal von Brauchitisch’s dismissal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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