HUGE GERMAN CASUALTY LISTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 5

HUGE GERMAN CASUALTY LISTS

LOSSES OF 200 MEN PER REGIMENT IN RUSSIA Copenhagen, September 30. The thirty-fifth German casualty list shows: —Officers: 60 killed, 190 wounded, 7 missing. Men: 991-killed, 5456 wounded, 1485 missing. The lists to date includo 588 pages, each of threo columns, comprising about 200,000 names altogether, and 117,000 to the beginning of September. Tile lists includo the losses at the Marne and tho Aisne. ' An tho Russian frontier, tho latoßt liat reveals that losses of 200 mon par •vatnmcut were common.

The Sixtieth Regiment of Infantry lost 34 officers and non-commissioned officers, 582 men killed, and. 296 officers and men wounded or missing. (Reo. October 1, 6.30 p.m.) London, September 30. A foreign military authority in Paris estimates the German losses at half a million.—("Times" and Sydney "Stm."Servicee.)

PREPARING FOR A WINTER CAMPAIGN. 0 London, September 30. Rotterdam reports that the Germans are preparing for a winter campaign. Men withdrawn from, the fighting lino are returning to the factories to prepare s'heepskin'floata. The Russians aver that the. Germans are not trained to pursue hostilities in the winter, while the Russians are more active as the snow and ice increase—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) Rotterdam, September 30. The Germans are vigorously preparing for a winter campaign. One hundred and fifty thousand officers' fur coats havo already been delivered. The Government has bought two million sheep and lamb skins for men's garments. :

RESERVES GOING INTO FIGHTING LINE. London, September 30. "The Times" says that modern artillery, destined for France, has been diverted to the Landsturm, whoso Mauser rifles are fifteen years old, and the artillery much older. N - From the Garrison Guprds, men between thirty-five and forty-five years of age and older have now been turned into offensive fighting units.