Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-05
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EHs LuN0EN u
TO Be STAGGERING
Generals Place Whole Blame
Oh Under Officers and
Urges Greater Care.
Br HENRY WOOD.
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT.

~From prisoners. from letters and
captured documents, from German pa
per. tlsst daily reach the French front
W wny OF Switzerland, and from Il
do2eh otsieF sources there Is being daily
established fresh details of the terrific
tcsSes suffered by the German armies
since tie beginning of their offensive
- the western front on March 81.
II OF tiic most remarkable declara-
tons along THIS line is that of a pris-
oner OF the i0Sth German division.
According to the prisoner, while Ger.
Sou Hut!er was at Solesmes, he adj
dressed the Officers of the division re-
ir!ndirs them that their unit had lost
3.toD u,en, aud holding the officers
themselves responsible for these losses
which, t,e declared were excessive. He
gave orders especially that in the flu
tlre they enforce a greater degree OF
d.sc,piine In the trenches where many
cf the losses had occurred. The gen.
era' Is declared To have ended his dis
course by declaring that the losses in
the future must be kept down to Il
lover point or else it would be neces-
sary to give Up all hope OF reaching
either Paris or Calais.
other intOrmatiOnS which to a large
extent have been controlled and veri-
lied. establish. for example, that at
Antwerp 5000 beds have been requisi-
toned Ivy the Germans for their wound
Ell.
Wounded Everywhere.
At Lille. Rouvaix, Tourcooig, Menin,
cities near the front, all of the factory
buildings. schools INT hospitals are
constantly filled with wounded. as is
Also the case at Courtrai. Winkel, Eloi
and Lauwe.
From COigne and DusseldOrff ii is
learned that the principal street rail-
ways have been used day and night for
the transportation OF wounded from the
railway ccnters to the hospitals and
ambulauccs.
A prisoner from the goth Bavarian
regiment declares that at the battle of
Garvelle. March 2S. his regiment lost
practically all its officers and so per
cent OF its men, The 152nd regiment
lost S. per e of its electives.
Tho Srd company. s52nd regiment,
LOSE IS men on the Somme.
Tn 255rd regiment at Montdider
averaged Is men per company follow
ms the battle. The 3rd company dis
appeared entirely. Even before the reg
tmen. could each It's trenches for
entering he battle 30 men were killed
by II machine guns of French air.
planes.
the 77th regiment, reserve infantry,
Lost S6 per cent Of Its electives, all
q lis machine guns and two-thirds of
its officers.
LIST company. End regiment,
OF the Prussian guard. was
completely annihiiated by a Frep~,,
serial bOmbardment during the niknt
OF June 2. When h French captured
the position where the had
been bombed over 200 dead were found
on the ground.
Staggering Losses.
AZ the beginning of the Aisne drive.
effectives of the send and 10th regi-
merits or reserve averaged 100 combat
anita to the company.
The eth company Of one of these
only one officer. IA u~nderofficers and
bS men. The list company. OF machine
Eunners on June 10 had lost 30 out OF
~ men.
Losses Tor scores OF other units have
been established similarly. From othe,.
sources the proportion of losses
sInongest IN German population has
ueen established in a different man
her, '
AZ Meckendorf, Bavaria. out of a to-
sal population Of 700 there have been
IS killed in the present offensive.
Az Seifersacrf. with a population OF
oSo' dead from h village have been
Ihpotted IN the present drive to the
number OF 43.
Nordhom's population Of $500 had
seo men killed in the offensive OF
During May the municipal authorize.
OF Weller in-der-B Bergen (Wurtem-
berg, were Officially advised that out
had been killed In the offensive.
At Munster. Mannheim, Heidelberg
n FribOurg the numerous trains nf