The Archive · 1914

Heavy German Losses

The following telegram is published by the courtesy of the French Consul-General.

Paris, Nov. 15.

Official: The day of the 14th has been nearly quiet, the German attacks around Ypres being all repulsed.

It is confirmed that in this region the Germans have suffered enormous losses. One German battalion, which left for the front on the morning of the 13th with 1,000 men, was reduced in the evening to 120 men who were made prisoners. Many companies of the Prussian Guard and of the Bavarian Corps, which were on " war footing at the beginning of November, are now only 50 or 100 strong.

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