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Show OFFENSIVE THUS FAR 11 COSILYFAILUBE LOSS OF THREE MILLION MEN IS ADMITTED BY PROMINENT GERMAN POLITICIAN. Hun Military Leaders Planned to Reach the North Coast, Where Their Guns Could Bar Navigation of Channel and Fire at England. 'oit-iih,-i;c-n. The (icriji.-ins lire still of Ihc f . -1 i . -1" thai they will he able 1., reiiih Hie English channel -,,;1sl, bar navigation nl' He; wafers I 1 ,i i 1 1 1 :i l' I xonllicrn Knglanil, mnl 1 1 i;i t then it will lie easy lo begin peace ncgot i.-t-liims, liccunling to interview Hie I'ulllikeii Inis hud with u prominent lernian politician, nienilier of the relchstag, who requested that his minie he not used. He udded Unit the -.i-i m, mi oneusive inns iur inid proved a failure, owing to lieavy losses, and Unit the lernian high ciiinnnind was waiting to (ihlain more artillery. Germany Ger-many had lost in killed, wounded and made prisoner .S,(HMJ,(MMI men, he added. Answering questions about the opinion of the relchstag main committee commit-tee on the si I nation on the western front and the end of the war, the newspaper's Informant said: "We still believe, according to messages mes-sages from our military leaders, that we shall reach the north coast, where our guns can bar navigation of the channel and lire at south England. It is suggested from the (lernian side (hat with this another course of Hie war will commence, and, as far as (Jennany is concerned, it will lie very easy u start armistice negotiations as, despite all assertions, we do not aim nt any compiering. We want neither (lie mine districts at Lorraine's west frontier nor Antwerp. "We have lost, including killed, wounded and prisoners, 3,000,000 men. Do you think that we intend to make foolish claims and send our children through another four years of war? Moreover, we shall have enough to do during (lie age of man to control the new liussinn country mid secure their mercantile ind industrial influence, ltesponsihle (lernian politicians only demand Unit (he western' powers shall give hack our colonies." |