THE FIGHTING

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15166, 2 January 1915, Page 8

THE FIGHTING

ANOTHER REPORT BY '-EYEWITNESS. ,, HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES. ■" j (Received January Ist, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON - , December 31. ; Colonel Swinton, "Eye Witness" iritfi British Headquarters, inferential]? di**2 poses of the "Hamburger blafct's" claim that -while the- British losses in the recent fighting at Feetuherc and Givenchy were heavy, the German losses were small. Ho says fifty dead Germans wero picked up in one of ilia trenches we recently retook. Ifi is c**, timated that in the attack on the Tit , , large captured by the Germans on tfee 21st their loss in killed alone was four hundred. An incident onthe24tb, on-f mentioned in his last report, led to * slight loss of ground for us, but heavy caanaKies wero suffered by the enemy* The Germans exploded a mine under" neatk a trench, and several yards were blown in. German snipers occupied the part destroyed, and enfiladed the rest of the trench. Meanwhile a larger body of tho enemy advanced, and our guns opened fire with deadly effect? scattering tho enemy and killing many. They also bombarded part of the occu-. pied trench, killing tb e occupants.