BIG FRENCH SUCCESS.
FIGHT AT LES EPARGES. ' GERMANS LOSE 30,000. By Tel«gr*ph—Pie** Association—CopTiight. A message from the High Gominisaioner. dn,ted London, April 11, (1.30 a.m.), givfls fuller particulars of the fight at Lee Sparge?, The d&r-laxa*Jou» of prisoners «snphasis9 the .importance of the French success., Germans had sia*« th* eaad of February a.i Les Uparges all the thirty-third division of tmwtos, Towards t ti* *n<l of Man-li tln'i division Htsm exhausted. Tbt; UerriiiMin lifouulii no t.hf truth active division <>f i.lw; Hl'i.h r-orpr*. in-
eluding the best troops in their army. Tt is t.hb division which lost a strong fortress on one spur of Lss Eparges. The German troops had received a constant order to hold ac all costs " a position of the utmost importance." Their general stated that to hold the position he would sacrifice ono hundred i-ho'iiaand men. The Germans sustained thirty thousand losses.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11360, 12 April 1915, Page 6
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