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Nazis Lose 2400 Men in Day'

MOSCOW--German troops have scored a 200 yard advance in one sector of the north Stalingrad factory area but they have been slaughtered to the last man in another sector and their losses for one day inside the city totaled more than 12 companies of infantry--2,400 men--the High Command announced today.

The midnight communique revealed that fighting had shifted to a new theatre of operations in the area of Nalchik, 60 miles northwest of the oil city of Ord-zhonikidso in the Caucasus foothills, where the Germans were believed trying a flank drive after failing to advance past Mozdok toward Grozny, farther cast.

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