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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 68, 13 December 1917, Page 5

At the end of the seven years' war the most noted of Germany's Roncralft had fallen, hosts of officers had disappeared, the lands were untilled, the seed com was eaten, and men hunted men for food. One-sixth of the men capable of hearing arms were dead; the only labourers in the fields wwu womon and girls, and tlicso well-nigh perishing of starvation. _ The very cattlo for food and agriculture wore swept away by famine and disease. Ten per cent, of the whole population were dead. Selection and rejection of men for the Army were impossible, and at tho closo tho fighting ranks included wholo battalions of deserters from tho other side, or prisoners captured in tho war.