GERMAN CASUALTY LIST DECEPTIONS
« We have learned by now how to read the German casualty lists (states vhe ''Westminster Gazette") We know that they are behind in date, that they are incomplete, and that accuracy is only approached in the number of prisoners, which' can be tested by , the Allies. That they aro out of date is clear from the November list, which' gives 1472 as the number of prisoners —about a fifth of the number captured in our last offensive on- the Ancre. Nevertheless the total acknowledged by the Germans themselves is 3,921,869, exclusive of tho naval losses. The killed aro 890,000; the missing, of whom a very large proportion are to be numbered among the dead, 285,000. Add to these totals the Austrian losses, which are disproportionately heavy, and the reduction in the Bulgarian and Turkish' forces in the field, ant? we get some measure of what the war has already cost the Central Powers in men alone.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 10
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160GERMAN CASUALTY LIST DECEPTIONS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 10
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