HUN LOSSES AT WYTSCHAETE
FIVE TIMES THE BRITISH. .Received 2.50 p.m.) PARIS, June 11. 51. Andre Tudesq, the Paris "Journal's correspondent, say 3 that 6 months were occupied in creating fresh saps extending two kilometres into the slopes and crests. The tunnellers dug nineteen pockets, stoping underneath a similar number of strongly-cemented and armed enemy fortresses. Quadrangular wells were sunk, and were crammed with most powerful explosives, about 25 tons each. Everything was completed by the end of the winter, and since January the German first Une troops have been living- above a slumbering inferno. The "Matin's" correspondent says that at Wytschaete the British casualties were eight thousand, while he estimates the Germans at thirty to forty thousand. He adds that the light batteries of a single British division fired 170,000 shells and. the heavy batteries 80,000 in one sector alone. — (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 139, 12 June 1917, Page 2
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