IMAGINATIVE GERMAN CLAIMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 8 December 1914, Page 5

IMAGINATIVE GERMAN CLAIMS.

M)A\DS PILED "WITH CiEirM'A'N ' DEAD. SETRRAL OfiRMAX DIVISIONS1 'ENTIRELY Dl ri AP P E ATI. '(Received Dec. 8, S.oO a.m.1) - ■ . PETROGRAD, Doc. 7. An 'Official statement 'ridicules the.' Gorman-claim .that they captured' Russians on November 27tli and December ~ 2nd, ' which is ptire'ly imagmalion. Tho 'Germans carefully conceal their own losses, including 23 grins in a single 'district. Witness** of previous wars state that they '-have never seen such .sights as the roads alter the German rotroat from Strykoff. - At som©, points where we attacked tho flanks the Gei man-dead were jnluil a metre high. . All the inhabitants of tho district arc- now at work bnrying the dead. Several German divisions, especially Guards, -were so severely tried during their rfrorls to {Scape, that they completely 'disappeared from thefightinp; line.. "_Repoits emanating from Berlin .stated tliat on November 27th yon Mackenseii captured at Lodz 40,000 prisoners, 70 cannon, 1(50 ammunition waggons, and 136 machine-guns, and ti.'.so destroyed 'JSO cannon. 'On December 2ml the. 'Germans ca-p----tured "12,000 prisoneit* and 2o guns in breaking through the Russian*1 cast of Lodz.]