HUGE GERMAN LOSSES
REGIMENTS MERE SKELETONS GUARDS WITHOUT OFFICERS Bordeaux, September 20. Captured German officers state that nearly all the companies in the Prussian Guard and the Tenth Army Corps have been reduced from 250 to 70. The first battalion of the Guards is commanded by volunteers, as all the officers have been lost. The Guards during a retreat abandoned a general, a colonel, eight officers, and eight hundred men. Of another Guards regiment only five officers out of. sixty remain. The first battalion lost all its officers. General von Schenck was among those killed. (Rec. September 21, 5.35 p.m.) London, September 20. A-Prussian Guards', officer, who is a prisoner, says: "My regiment is a skeleton. The French shrapnel was terrific. Wβ could not locate their guns. We were fighting, for long stretches without food, and wo were so tired that wo could not sit on our horses. I have come to the conclusion that modern warfaro iB tho Rreatost madness of'the nations. "^("Times' , and Sydney "Suu" Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2261, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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168HUGE GERMAN LOSSES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2261, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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