Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — GERMAN ARMIES LOSSES OVER 275,000 MEN [ARTICLE]

GERMAN ARMIES LOSSES OVER 275,000 MEN

In Their Great Offensive Which 1$ Halted At All Points. ALLIES REGAIN SOME GROUND And inflict Terrible I‘unisliment on Enemy—loo,ooo American Soldiers Added to Allied Front. Latest dispatches from the great German offensive on the west front state that the German armies have been checked at all points ahdi that the casualties suffered by tlhe enemy in the eleven days' offensive will aggregate more than 375,000 men in killed, wounded and taken prisoner. It is declared that most of the wounded have been sent to Belgium to conceal from the German people their heavy sacrifices, while the dead cover the battlefield in every direction. The losses of the allies have also been quite heavy, but nothing compared to the terrible slaughter of the enemy in the massed attacks made by the, latter. Germany claims to have taken 75,000 prisoners, but this number is greatly exaggerated, it is said. General Pershing's forces, or 100,000 of the more highly trained American soldiers in France, have been turned into the conflict or are on their way to the front and will assist the allies in forcing back the German armies in the great counter attacks that are to follow the halting of the forces of the kaiser.

Washington, April I.—ln the absence of reports from General Pershing showing the disposition made of American troops by General Foch, supreme commander of the allied and American armlee, officials here were watching the French and British statements closely tonight for the first word that will show the Americans to be at the battle front in Picardy. It is probable that not only the first news of the activities of Pershing’s men in their new status will come this way: but that for some time the French communiques will give the American people their only information on the subject. Once the American units have been merged with the French as it is assumed they will be French customs as to withholding designations of units engaged for military reasons will govern news regarding them until General Pershing has had time to set up a method of assembling and transmitting daily reports of his own.