THE GERMAN LOSSES.
DOUBLE THOSE OF FRANCE.
FRENCH ARTILLERY WORK.
(Received April 2, 7.30 p.m.)
New York, April 1. A correspondent of the Associated Press, after a visit to the battlefields, states that 11,000 Germans were killed, taken or captured in the trenches during twenty days' fighting in the Champagne region, making the casualties at least 50,000.
The German wastage, the correspondent says, is at least double that of the French owing to their repeated and obstinate counterattacks, which were not supported by adequate artillery. The Germans had 200,000 in this, sector, but the superiority of the French artillery, by preventing German reserves from coming up, enabled daily successful assaults.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 8
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