BRITISH CASUALTIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2249, 8 September 1914, Page 5

BRITISH CASUALTIES

4558 MEN MISSING THE LATEST LIST (Rec. September 7, 8.25 p.m.) London, September 6, evening. .'A list completing the casualties to September, 1 shows tlie following:— Killed—Officers; ,9; other Tanks, 33. Wriunded—Officers', 27;, other ( ranks, '120. Missuig—Officers, 49; other ranks, 4558. KerMAn losses. whole regiments lost. (Rec. Septoihber 7, 9:50 p.m.) Copenhagen; Septcni.b&r B. Lists of the Ibsses of the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth.Corps of the German Army; 6how that various Prussian Guard regiments and also tlie Fourth Bavarian r Ciivalry Brigade lost nearly all their officers arid men.

massacres originated in some youths firlug .oh the Germans from houses. Every sxich house ivas burnt .down and the occupants slaughtered. The destruction was remorselessly completed,on the second day, the.occu'bation proceeding street by street and house by house. Qiily 2000. German soldiers were, engaged; biit they were flrtink with blood; riot liquor. ,•■ ~ Mr. Irwiii believes that the Gerriiiiria m general are not defying tho rules of warfare; but are Applying .theni in their entirety,, with a brutality hitherto unknown in civilised warfare, Inhabitants who did hbt fly from the ruins of their tbwtis. and villages were left starving, destitute; and' stunned.