GERMANY'S HUGE LOSSES.
7SJOO PRISONERS IN EIGHT * * " : WEEKS. ■: :.■■ .
CASUALTIES ESTIMATED AT
"300,000,
Received June 2, 5.5 p.m
LONDON.. June 2
A French Headquarters' correspondent states, that between April 15th and May'24th, :he French prisonered 31,829, of whom 28,0i5 were unwounded, making, with the British aud Italian captures during the past eight weeks a total of over 76,000,' equivalent'to the bayonet strength of vine divisions as the enemy divisions! are.naw constituted. Estimating the kilied and seriously wounded at twice the number of prisoners,; the Germans on the Aisrie and I Champagne front have lost during the period, mentioned an average of a regiment' dsily, but in reality the losses have been far heavier, since, according to, their own computation, the killed j are much more numerous than prisoners, and the proportion of wounded to killed cannot be put at less than four to one. ,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17004, 4 June 1917, Page 5
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