Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-29
Eleven Thousand German Dead
Are Taken From Trenches
Won by French During
Twenty Days Battle.
$4,000 IS ESTIMATED
LOSSES OF INVADERS
KaiSerS Forces Are Pressed
Back a Little Each Day.
Gallo Artillery Now Has En-
tire ASCendanCy.
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tsY MORNING JouHHAL SPECIAL tGAstp WlREl
Chalons-sur-Marne, France. March
2S.-Eleven thousand German dead
have been taken from the trenches
. won by the French during twenty
days of fighting in the Champagne
country. The German losses in killed.
prisoners and wounded are estimated
by the French military authorities as
: $4,000. The German wastagc they
say has been two to one, compared
with the French losses. because the
Germans would try to regain lost
ground by counter-attacks repeated
again and again with obstinate eour-
age. II was in these counter-assaults
supported By relatively inadequate ar
tillery and what the French officers
assert was inadequate morale, against
the allied troops, that so many Ger
man soldiers have fallen. The graves
in which they are buried in flfties and
by hundreds are thick upon a narrow
front of some fifteen miles.
French Gain Steadily.
For nearly month now the French,
their officers declare, by the superb
ority of their artillery of both large
and small ealiber and by certain r-
resistible spirit, have, day by day,
gained ground sometimes a few hun
dred yards Of trenches; on other days
a mile Of frontage and from three to
five hundred yards deep.
The Germans are bringing up new
contngents steadily. They have had
IN action on this segment of the fight
ing lines during March five army
corps, or about 200, 900 men. Yet, on
the evening Of every day, the French
officers assert that the French have
held somewhat more of the field than
they did the evening before
The Associated Press correspondent
has been over the ground and found
that this is what has taken place;
THE French artillery numerous
and concentrated, at times subdues
the German guns and tears up parts
of the German trenches by sustained
shell fire Then, at a moment sig
nailed by telephone, the guns cease
and the men in the trenches, with re-
serves crowded into the approaches.
jump out and make quick run Tor
the trenches opposite. Then body-to-
body fighting finishes the attack.
Meantime a barrier of bursting
shells behind the German front line
prevents reserves from coming up.
This is continued until the captured
trenches are put into condition to re-
sst assaults These assaults some
times are unsuccessful but the re-
suits from day to day apparently
have been gains for the French
The correspondent has been able 70
sec for himself the ground gained by
the French and to compare the POSI-
tions occupied months ago with those
held today.
The French commanders, who find
the courage and confidence of their
troops mounting with each success
expect that the Germans have been
somewhat dishcartened by feeling
that French attacks are successful
and that their many counter-at-
tacks delivered with admirable pluck
under the circumstances have been
useless.
The French are employing such
quantities of artillery, newly con-
structed and of heavy field caliber
that they are able TO combine ana
concentrate fire in way not seen be-
fore in this war. The French officers
say their guns can dominate the en-
emys positions at any time or any
place.
During the twenty days advance IN
the Champagne region, the French
have used million and half pro-
jectiles against places occupied by the
Germans. All along this front one
heard narratives Of deeds Of indiVld-
ual soldiers. and Of officers. Thefo
was the incident Of Vandal, a master
gunner. He was badly wounded at
the same time as one Of his reno"
gunners. Jacques. To comrade VINO
was trying to bandage his wound
Vandal said
~ feel that ] am dying Save Jac-
oues." Then to a lieutenant who was
arranging to have him taken to the
rear, while an enemy aeroDlane lie"
overhead, Vandal said
"Do not trouble about me. DO not
let them see the battery we Ia
France" The next moment NSndai
was dead.
Smiles and Dies on Stretchef.
Private Galeski, who was the taik
of his company on the 7th ana sth Of
March because of his andacity ana
coolness in the storming of trenches
fell on the 9Th of March in an assault
upon Fortin mill. When picked up
GalesN asked:
Did you carry the Forth hill2"
"Yes. we took It," was the reply
and Galeski smiled and died on the
stretcher.
Lieutenant Ecorcheville fell NOR
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