GERMAN LOSSES
THOUSANDS OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND PRISONERS. v "(Received August 12, 7.30 p.m.) BRUSSELS, August 11, midnight. After the conscript® at Herstal had left women and old, men to defend the national small arms factory, they armed with revolvers and other weapons and repulsed several Uhlan patrols. When their ammunition was exhausted, they barricaded their houses and poured boiling water on tbo attackers. The factory is still uacaptured. The War Office has announced that 2000 Germans were killed! at Liege, 20,000 wounded, and 9700 were taken prisoners.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 5
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88GERMAN LOSSES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 5
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