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Show GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY. 'Fifty Thousand Men Said to Have Perished in Three Weeks. Chalons Sur Marne, France Eleven thousand Germans dead have been taken from the trenches won by the French during twenty days of fighting fight-ing in the Champagne country. The German losses in killed, prisoners and wounded are estimated by the French military authorities at 50,000. The German wastage, they say, has been two to one compared with the French losses, because the Germans would try to regain lost ground by counterattacks counter-attacks repeated again and again with obstinate courage. It was in these counter assaults, supported by relatively rela-tively inadequate; artillery, and what the French officers assert was inadequate inade-quate morale, against the allied troops, that so many German soldiers have fallen. The graves in which they are buried by fifties and by hundreds hun-dreds are thick upon a narrow front of some fifteen miles. |