FRENCH CASUALTIES
PUBLICATION OF DETAILS FORBIDDEN. ' TALL STORIES TOLD TO GERMANS. (Received August 12, 8.35 p.m.) ■ PARIS, August 12, morning. The Government have forbidden the publication of_ the numbers of casualties and the names of the killed; and wounded. They - have opened a bureau where the relatives shall bp merely told whether a soldier has been killed and wounded without giving the place or the day on which he fell. ' M. Netou, the French Consul-General at Dusseldorf, who was at Cologne on Friday, states that the German people there are being informed that Liege has been taken at the point of the bayonet, that Brussels is in flames, Antwerp blown up, and that the Kaiser, at the, head of his army expects to reach Paris in a week.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 4
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