Red Army troops tonight tightened their steel noose around the remains of the 16th German Army trapped at the communications and supply base of Staraya Russa.
Russian dispatches claimed that 12,000 Germans already have been slain in the battle after Russian soldiers slipped over seemingly impassable rivers and marshes to take the Nazis by surprise.
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