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Show SECRET PAPERS CONFIRM HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES V.'A. ll.'XG'f N. April 2... Kurt Ikt Informal. In-formal. on rM-:ardifig Ihe loosen fi i j Tc rerl by tiie 'iejin-ni! In then- ol7eT:F-ive and Oil t r Grnian atMiu'W- toward the Ai.a-Ii.uim, Ai.a-Ii.uim, .t'-t i- vr.il"'l bv rel do.ijtni n t a '"!,. r on pi uioihtm, Pi given lu a , ,,f I' I i a I '1 1 -pa I eii t oda v from Km ma;, Ybe Mipabd, follow-'.: 'in tir-il I the Genua n-i wll hdie -,v from front, four Mvb ion lhal had n'iff nd fK'Vi relv. To tb'j de,h (, , divisions mentioned yesterday may be added the following: The First, the 11'jt h, whose companies are reduced to forty men; Mie Fourth, the Eighth, the Fiftieth, the 195th and the reserve re-serve division of the guard, which has lost 25 per cent of its men. A regiment regi-ment of the Tweflth division has been reduced to less than S00 men. The Fifth and Forty-fifth reserve divisions di-visions were reduced more than half. The Alsatian -contingents, three-quarters three-quarters of which had been until now used on the eastern front, and are now in France, appear to give great concern to the Germans according to secret instruction found on prisoners. It is forbidden to use Alsatians and Lorrainers in the first line and In patrol duty. These precautions show conclusively how little trust the Germans Ger-mans have In the inhabitants of the provinces which they claim for their own. |