DEATH ROLL IN TWENTY DAYS' FIGHTING
APPALLING SLAUGHTER OF GERMANS (Dec. April 1, ,0.30 a.m.) Now York, llarch 31. A correspondent, of tho Associated I'ross. after a visit to the battlefields, stated that 11,000 German dead were taken from captured trenches during twenty days' lighting in the Champagne district, making rhoir casualties at least £0,000. Tho German wastage, lie says, is at- least double that of the French, owing lo repeated obstinate counter-at-tacks, which arc not supported by ado-, quate artillery.
.The Germans Lad 200,000 men in this sector, but tko superiority of the French artillery, by preventing the German reserves from coming up, enabled them daily to make successful assaults. ENEMY'S STRENGTH IN MACHINE GUN STARTED THE WAR WITH FIFTY, THOUSAND. (Rec. April 1, 0.30 a.m.) London.. April 1. "Eye-\Yitne6s" states tlnit Germany 6tartcd the war with 50,000 machineguns. Sho liad liftcen along a front of 250 yards at NeuVo Oltapolle, from which 7500 bullets poured every liiinut.e.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2426, 3 April 1915, Page 7
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159DEATH ROLL IN TWENTY DAYS' FIGHTING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2426, 3 April 1915, Page 7
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