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Germans Claim Kerch

BERLIN--German shock troops were reported officially today to have captured Kerch and 101,600 of the Russians defending it, and military spokesmen said the Germans might strike on across the Korchenski Straits into the Caucasus on the momentum of their present drive, without waiting to map up Crimoa.

A special communique from Adolf Hitlor's field headquarters said German troops in a nine-day siege climaxed by bloody street fighting had overwhelmed the Russian defenders of Kerch and that "the entire eastern part of the Crimes is in our hands."

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