BATTLE OF SOISSONS.
GERMAN EXAGGERATIONS.
"SECOND GRAVELO7TE."
(Received January 17. 7.30 p.m.l
Paris, January 16.
In reply to a German official wireless message declaring that the German success at Soissons is comparable with the Prussian victory at Gravelotte, in the war of 1870-1871, and that 5000 French were killed and 5200 taken prisoners, it is semiofficially announced that the French forces consisted of three brigades, and their retirement was not molested.
A brigade comprises two infantry regiments and has a nominal strength of about 8000 combatants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15820, 18 January 1915, Page 5
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