GERMAN LOSSES
HEAVY ON WEST FRONT
POOR RATIONS FOR TROOPS.
(Received February 24, Boon.)
•PARIS, 23rd February
Le Journal's correspondent 'states that the German losses are heavy considering the nature of the actions. One battalion lost 40 per cent, of its eSectives, and another was reduced to a company.
The troops receive a daily ration of a pound and half of black bread, five ounces of preserved sausages, a litre of soup, mainly vegetable, and threequarters of a litre of coffee. Potatoes are rarely seen. The bread is of wretched quality.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 6
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