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Show GERMANS SLAIN IN HEAPS. Losses During First Two Days of Campaign Greater Than Reported. Paris.1 The losses of the Germans during the first cwo days of fighting, after the launching of the enemy offensive offen-sive in the Champagne, appear now to have been even heavier than was first reported. When the Germans east of lA.ieims fell Into the trap which Gour-aud Gour-aud laid for them they were mowed down literally in heaps. From where Gouraud's guns were placed it was possible, pos-sible, owing to the line of terrain, to observe directly the effect of the French fire', and entire ranks of the enemy were soon to' crumple up like paper. - |