MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE GERMANS
SIXTY-EIGHT ARMY CORPS
(Rec. November 23, 9.40 p.m.)
London, November 23. The "Daily Telegraph's" American correspondent, who was recently in Berlin, states that ho had ample opportunities of studying tho situation. Ho states that sixty-eight army corps have been mobilised, each numbering 43,000, and two million volunteers are ready to fill np the gaps. The Germans are continually changing their units on the two fronts. .They find that tho journey rests tho men, and the change of scene prevents them getting etale. The German losses total 950,000, of whom many have already rejoined. Tho chief trouble is tho scarcity of rubber, copper, and saltpotre, and it is probable that the failure of ammunition will render it impossible to continuo tho war on the present scalo after June. The Germans mean to keep Belgium as 'a final asset with which to negotiate for peace. For the same reason they are not likely to risk the ileet. The military commanders' tiro convinced that they can counter Russia, owing to their mobility, and tho strategic railways. If the Thorn-Breslau liuo is (orccd tliej, can defend the .Odes;.'
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 5
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189MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE GERMANS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 5
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