Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-08 | Page 1 | Heavy Losses Around Lodz

HEAVY LOSSES AROUND LODZ I Germans Lose Many Officers Estimated Total Losses of 100,000 Men. Petrograd, via London. Dec. 8, 9: OS a. m. The Bourse Gazette estimates the German casualties in the month of fighting around Lodz at 100,000 and says the percentage of loss Is particularly par-ticularly high among the commanding and commissioned officers Even colonels and occasionally generals, it says, remained on the firing line until they were able to escape only by means of motorcycles. According to wounded German officers offi-cers in the prison camp at Bielostok, Russia, a number of Turkish officers are serving in the German army in Poland. It is said that they have been training in the German military schools and were drafted on account of the lack of competent officers. rw"