GERMANS CLAIM BIG CAPTURES.
1000 OFFICERS AND 300,000 MEN. .
(Received June 3, 1.40 p.m.) BERLIN, June 2. A German communique states: Eight hundred, and thirty-six; officers and! 268,889 men have been taken prisoners m May m the south-eastern theatre, and 251 cannon and 576 machine guns taken ; whereof Geeral Mackensen captured two generals, 400 officers, 135,254 men, 160 cannon and 403 machine-guns. The total number of Russians captured m May was 1000 officers and ov«r 300,000 men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13701, 3 June 1915, Page 3
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