GERMANY'S WAR STRENGTH IN TROOPS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2422, 30 March 1915, Page 5

GERMANY'S WAR STRENGTH IN TROOPS

A BLEAK PROSPECT

(Rec. March 29, 0.15 a.m.)

Paris, March 29. The official review of the war (continued) points out that- the Germans commenced the war with sixty-one army corps in fighting troops, apart from the Landstrum troops, who were guarding the communications. By November they had sixty-eight fighting army corps, of which fifty were pitted against the French, British, and Belgians, during the B.attle of Flanders. After tliis defeat Germany lost the initiative, and direction of the operations. The war lists of tlio German General Staff and captured archives show that tlio Germans admit that they had lost 1,800,000 on the two fronts by the mid-r die of January, not including the sick. The recruiting resources of Germany total nine million, of which half a million are required for the railways and ess.ential industries, four million were already fighting at the beginning of January 1, leaving 3,200,000, chiefly untrained troops. Deducting 800,000 over thirty-nine years of age, Germany has only two million reserves available for the 1915 operations. She is losing at the rate of 260,000 a month.