COMPARATIVELY SLIGHT FRENCH LOSSES.
PARIS. Friday. M. I'oincare (['resident ) visited Verdun and congratulated the troops. The Germans' preliminary bombardment in the last 120 hours has been alir.c st wholly from heavy guns. The French front is terribly battered. The lire on the second line made it difficult to get food up. \ fifteen-inch shell burst near a battery of seventy-fives at a little wood tea"r Fleury. All the gunners were killed or wounded. One -German Army Corps northwar*. of Verdun was reduced to three thousand. The French losses in the ten days' lighting' arc slight compared with the Germans. The proportion of kileld. wounded and prisoners is estimated at five Germans to one French.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14509, 4 March 1916, Page 6
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113COMPARATIVELY SLIGHT FRENCH LOSSES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14509, 4 March 1916, Page 6
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