Paris, Oct. 26.
Casualties sustained by German troops on October 16 and October 17 during the German advance into the zone evacuated by the majority of French troops are estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000.
The casualties were caused by artillery barrages, mine fields, and machine-gun fire by French advance units, A French major who took part in the action east of Saarbruecken declared that 200 Germans fell there. Several trains carrying the wounded passed through Trier, on the Moselle, the French General' Staff learned—
Havas,
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