KAISER'S BIRTHDAY TOLL.
HUGE GERMAN LOSSES. 20,000 MEN IN THREE DAYS. Paris, Thursday. A Paris communique states that the total German lossea on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday exceeded 20,000 men. The enemy made a great effort in honour of the Kaiser's birthday, but it was a good day for the Allies along the whole front. All the German attacks were repulsed, and all our attacks progressed, while our artillery demolished several trenches. In Belgium the English artillery swept the German routes to the points of concentration south of the river Lys. The Germans a whole brigade--6400 men—-on Monday and Tuesday in the Craonne region. Our losses were 800, including two companies which were imprisoned by a landclide.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 741, 30 January 1915, Page 5
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117KAISER'S BIRTHDAY TOLL. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 741, 30 January 1915, Page 5
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