HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES
NEARLY 750,000 ON" THE SOMME. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 19. The Westminster Gazette's military expert says the 29 German divisions which Sir Douglas Haig reports were withdrawn exhausted represent 550.000 fighters. At least two-thirds of the effectives must have been lost the Germans retired a single division. Therefore the enemv's losses on the British front have been about 370.000 since July Ist. Probably the Germans lost another 350.000 on the Trench front on the Somme. The limit of German endurance must soon be reached.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 September 1916, Page 5
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