APPALLING LOSSES.
THE STRUGGLE AT YSER
HALF A MLLION TROOPS
LOSSES NINETY THOUSAND.
Received this day, 10,40 a.m. London, Friday,
Fighting in Belgium and Northern France is realty for vantage points, some detail ground such a3 a wood or a quarry, which enables a battery or two to become unassailable and gives a position to organise attacks from behind it.
Tha German losses southward of Dixmude are appalling. One body of troops was tbrice flung back. Finally they were allowed to get within twenty yards when the French fired and cut down every man. Three thousand Germans were killed in ten minutes.
Captured German officers state half a million Germans are fighting in the Yser district. They estimate their losses at ninety thousand. One regime it eighteen huundred strong has now eighty. The losses include five generals.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 721, 14 November 1914, Page 5
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137APPALLING LOSSES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 721, 14 November 1914, Page 5
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