BRITAIN'S PART.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1917, Page 3

BRITAIN'S PART.

A SUMMARY

CAPTURES -AND -LOSSES.

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*]

Received, tiffs day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, October 5

; A high military authority states from the end of July, to the end of Sept., tho troops participating in tho recent offensive were 70 per cent. English, 16 Colonial, 'six Scottish and eight Irish.

The casualties percentage were English 76, Colonial 8, Scottish 10. Irish 6.

We captured during the past nine months on the West front 51,4-36 Germans and 342 field and heavy guns. We lost in the same period, 15,065 prisoners and no guns.

Tn all the theatres of war in nine months, we had captured 72,513 prisoners. and 480 guns, and lost 15,860 prisoners and no guns. Dulling tho< .V'f-ptohiber nlr raids on London 51 persons wero killed and 317 wounded.

The Germans dropped 4:] tons of bombs on London.

During the same period we dropped 215 tons of bombs behind German lines The enemy bad copied our methods. We taught them how to bomb from aeroplanes, but they have not yet succeeded as much as we have done. Now tho hot- weatberbas passed we should begin to hear something from Mesopotamia. The capture of Ramadil is most important. Tf the enemy got it, it would have left our flank against Baghdad open.

Tn East Africa Gormans aro now cornlled within an area of two hundred mill's by fifty.