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Show GERMANS LOSING GflOUilDlfl FRAfiCE REPORTED TO HAVE SUFFERED ENORMOUS LOSSES IN BATTLE VITH FRENCH AND ENGLISH. Request for Armistice of Twenty-four Hours in Which to Bury Dead Denied De-nied by Frenchmen, Who Estimate German Losses at 30,000. Official reports from both Paris and London indicate sucessful movements at least for the time being by the allied al-lied armies against the Germans. London Lon-don reports that the British have pushed the opposing forces back ten miles and that the allies are gaining ground along tjie line of the Oureq and Petit Morin rivers. Accounts of wounded soldiers who reached Paris Tutsday afternoon indicate indi-cate that the result of the three days' fighting in the Champagne country has been more favorable for the allies than at first supposed. They say the German losses in killed were enormous, enorm-ous, and that a great number of prisoners pris-oners were taken. One French officer estimates the prisoners at 30,000. The Champagne district includes parts of the department of Marne, Ardennes, Aube and Haute-Marne. With hundreds of thousands of men engaged on both sides, the battle bat-tle now in full swing to the east of Paris promises to be the most important import-ant of the campaign up to the present pres-ent In reply to a request by the Germans Ger-mans for an armistice of twenty-four hours to bury the dead and care for the wounded, the French authorities are reported to have sent this message: mes-sage: "We grant you that time to get out of France." An infantry officer, wounded north of Meaux, said that the Germans seemed to be tired out. He counted 600 dead in a single trench. The French infantry charged, as at Char-leroi, Char-leroi, against machine guns, and in spite of strong positions broke the enemy's line. The retreat of the Ger mans was precipitate. They seemed to lack ammunition. |