FRENCH CASUALTIES
PUBLICATION OF NUMBERS FORBIDDEN. CONSCRIPTS TO SAVE THE CROPS. PARIS, llth August. The French Government has forbidden the publication of the numbers of the casualties and the names, of tho killed and wounded, and has opened a bureau where relatives are merely told whether the soldier enquired for is killed or wounded, without giving the place or the day he fell. The War Minister, M. Delcasse, lias detailed 20,000 naval conscripts to save the cereal and grape harvests.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 38, 13 August 1914, Page 7
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80FRENCH CASUALTIES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 38, 13 August 1914, Page 7
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