ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
J, V. Hughes.—A recent estimate of Germany's lighting strength was made bv Mr. Eilnire Belloc in two articles in "Land and W«ter" on November 7 and 11. Counting nil males between 17 aud SO Germany had 17,000,000 'men. A quarter were trained men of the usual fighting age, 2t to 4;"< —4,250,000 men; a quarter—anothor 4,250,000 men— of the same age but partly trained or untrained and many physically unfit. The balance—B,soo,ooo—stand for boys not really fit to bear arms, but availablo at a pinch, and elderly, old, and very old men. Mr.. Belloc estimates that not more than seven million men had been summoned in any shape since the beginning of the war, and of these at least 1,175,000, or one quarter, have been lost in killed, wounded, invalided, and missing.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 4
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135ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 4
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