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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 April 1915, Page 3

'I he full story of the iirst battle, of pres is coining out at last. A graphic account appearing m the London Daily Mail. Irom the pen of William Irwin, alleges that 500.000 men were lf).st i>v tlie combatants in tin- .series -of engagements spread over one week! England last nearly half of her total troops in the action: i.e.. 50.000 out of 120.000. The Germans lost 375,000 and the Belgians 70,000. Tll this one battle the losses were as great as the total losses in the whole of the Anipriean Civil War, which was reckoned the most deadly war of modem times.