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Show 1 75,000 FRENCH SOLDIERS KILLED BY OWN ARTILLERY B (By Associated Press) i iBBB PARIS, Dec. 31. General Percin. ABjBj In a book describing more than rfj battles In Prance and Belgium during I 'r ,t the late war, concludes from dal , col- ' i k-cted by hlni that 75.000 French BOl- B! I dicrs were killed bv theli own irtil- i t lery through defective liaison BBH The losses, he sa- wero higher bv 1 r,n Per ln French army ihan 1,1 th" German army. The losses o( BnB the French infantr, he finds, BBV comparatively four tlms greater than BVI the losses of tho artillery. Hp fixes J ; Ibe French iossvs from the encmj a fire at 5,000.000 killed and ffc.unded. General Percin was military governor gover-nor of the torn. . . of ljiir. just after the outbreak of the war. He evacuated evacuat-ed the fortress on orders received from tho goernrnent when the Germans Ger-mans approached tho frontier and was. for (i long time, supposed by the general public to have evacuated the place of his own volition. A lively controversy between his friends and adversaries has been going on ever I since as to whether he was badlv treat-led treat-led bv the genera staff. He has se-I se-I vercly criticised the conduct of the wai in the field be French staff. |