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ENEMY LOSS OF ABOUT 250,000 MEN. EVACUATION OF FRAGMENT. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 17. The German claim that the Messina evacuation was a great achievement is not taken seriously in Whitehall. It is pointed out that 130,000 prisoners had been taken up to yesterday week, and this probably has been increased by many thousands more in the last few days. The total enerpy losses are estimated to be about 250,000, which is nothing short of a major military defeat, which cannot be balanced by the evacuation of a fragment.
It is suggested that for the Nazis to get any of their forces away must seem good to them after the capture of the entire German and Italian armies in Tunisia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 4
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