Show W ET T FRONT fR NT CARPETED OJ DY HUN H N NA DEAD A Official Diplomatic Dispatch Dispatch Dispatch Dis Dis- patch Tells of Ghastly Aftermath of Ruthless Sacrifice of Germans By United Press Preas TV April 20 WASHINGTON W vy Germany is carpeting the western estern battle batHe field with dead and nd from many outfits has lost 50 o per cent or above according to a an official diplomatic dispatch received received re re- re- re here tonight On March Mardi 26 the tenth division of reserves at Croix du Bac lost halt half its forces and a company compan of ot the r regiment could report only twenty six I out ont Ut of six ninety men oi o oa April 10 Other Other examples examples of at the reckless wastage wast vast age ge the boche bache leaders are inflicting in their gamble follow tollow AWFUL LOSSES The regiment of or the second Bavarian arlan division lost 50 60 per cent a company of ot the regiment mustered mustered mus mus- red only one commissioned officer and nd thirty men at the close lose of an attack attack at at- tack the grenadier regiment lost at I. I least twenty six officers in thene theone the theone one ne hundred and seventh eighty division divi dIvi- sion on 1600 men were mowed down on March arch 26 the infantry of or the fourth division reserves was nearly annihilated annihilated an an- on April 9 the seventeenth reserve serve division showed 40 0 per cent decrease crease while the regiment lost more ore than half haIr in th the e Merris fighting rIghting A German prisoners prisoner's letter gives yes a glimpse in the bloody scene ROADS STREWN WITH V DEAD I IThe The road from Arras Arias to is I constantly under fire and our losses I are C beyond description he wrote according ac ae- ac- ac cording to the dispatch The ditches are e piled plied high with dead horses and certain batteries have on only I two or three iree left The losses in men are not less ss and ever every day the road is strewn with Ith dead and dying Germany herself hersel is keeping figures from her people veople as far as possible but Lit the grim fact of ot severe losses is seeping through to homes asie as the ie wounded pour back While the them m military III tar leaders have prepared the theay way ay for bad tidings the ruthless sacrifices sac sac- Ices of the wave formations are creating creating cre cre- lug a profound effect In Germany German according ac ac- ac cording to the information hereIt here It alt is not surprising that the Geran German German Ger Ger- man an public is stirred by the serious German erman losses on the western front commented the official message |