GERMAN LOSSES.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2659, 25 August 1871, Page 3

GERMAN LOSSES.

The German losses turn out, says the Pall Mall Gazelle, on n revision of the official lists, to have been smaller than was at first believed. The total loss in killed, wounded, an 1 missing, amounts to 47,602, viz. 1167 officers and 15,224 men killed ; 1838 officers and 27,417 men wounded ; and 16 officers and 2000.men missing. The gains of the war, on the other hand, in trophies and prisoners is unusually largo, indeed, so consult rablc as to be uniuue in history, the “ Breslauer Zeitung,’ whose patriotic pride enumerates the long list, which it compares with our paltry acqu titions in the Crimea and those of the French in Italy. By this account .the last three Prussian campaigns have been wonderfully prolific of such memorials of victory, and present a strange contrast to former w„rs. Thus at the Alma we took two colors and two guns, at Inkermnn we lost three guns, and at the storming of the Malakoff, we eap'ured one standard and 31 gur.s. The number of prisoners in the campaign did not exceed 6000. The entire spoils of the French ip 1859 consisted of three colors, twenty.slx guns, ,-md 16.000 p;isoners, The Prussians on the other hand, took at Duppel 19 colors, HOguns, and 3400 prisoners; at Alsen, 13 colors, 93 guns,.and 2494 piisoners; at Konigratz, 7 c. lors, 161 guns, and 19,800 prisoners—altogether in 1866, 13 colors, 208 giins, and 49.000 prisoners. The figures for the late war are more formidable still. At Spichcrn, Pange, Gravelotte, Vionville, L’Hallu and Bapaume, hardly any trophies were taken. But at Wissembeurg 2 colors, I gun, and 800 prisoners were captured; at Wocrth, 2 eagles, 24 guns, 6 mitrailleurs, and 4000 prisoners; at Beaumont, 8 eagles and colors, over 50 guns, and 20,000 prisoners,; at Sedan, 400 guns mitrailleurs, and 80,000J prisoners, with all their colors ; at Metz, 56 eagles, 600 guns, and 170 000 prisoners. Altogether exclusive of the capitulation of Paris, the late war has yielded over 120 eagles and colors, 6,400 guns, and 374,995 prisoners, to which ought to Vie added 84,001), interned in Switzerland, and 6,000 interned in Belgium. Tho capitulation of Paris has added other 170,000 prisoners, the number of troprhies being not yet accurately stated.