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Show FIELDS CARPETED j WITH HUN DEAD DIPLOMATIC DISPATCH TELLS OF GHASTLY AFTERMATH OF RUTHLESS RUTH-LESS SACRIFICE OF GERMANS. Some Regiments Lose Half of Their Men in Desperate and Futile Charges Against Impregnable Wall of Britons and Frenchmen. Washington. Germany is carpeting the western battle field with dead and many regiments have lost 50 per cent or above, according to an official diplomatic dip-lomatic dispatch received here. On March 20, the tenth division of reserves at Croix du Dac lost half its forces, and a company of the 370th regiment could report only twenty-six out of ninety-six men ou April 10. Other examples of the reckless wastage wast-age the boche leaders are inflicting in their gamble follow: The 20th regiment of the second Bavarian division lost 50 per cent ; a company of the 77th regiment mustered mus-tered only one commissioned officer and thirty men at the close of an attack at-tack ; the 5th grenadier regiment lost at least twenty-six officers; in the one hundred and eighty-seventh division, divi-sion, 1,600 men were mowed down on March 26; the 260th infantry of the fourth division reserves was nearly annihilated an-nihilated on April 9; the seventeenth reserve division showed 40 per cent decrease, while the 131st regiment lost more than half in the Merris fighting. fight-ing. A German prisoner's uninailed letter gives a glimpse in the bloody scene. " "The road from Arras to Cambrai is constantly under fire and our losses are beyond description," he wrote, according ac-cording to the dispatch. "The ditches are piled high with dead horses and certain batteries have only two or three left. The losses in men are not less, and every day the road is strewn with dead and dying." Germany herself is keeping figures from her people, ns far as possible, but the grim fact of severe losses is seeping through to Teuton homes as the wounded pour back. While the military leaders have prepared the way for bad tidings, the ruthless sacrifices sac-rifices of the wave formations' are creating cre-ating a profound effect in Germany, according ac-cording to the information here. "It is not surprising that the German Ger-man public is stirred by the serious German losses on the wetern front," commented the official message. |