GERMAN CASUALTIES.
An estimate of German casualties given by the Under-Secretary for War, Mr Tennant, in the House of Commons recently placed them at 2,525,768 up to the end of last year. These figures have been challenged by several English critics. Other estimates are much higher, estimates not made by those whose “wish is father to the thought,” but by neutrals. A whole year ago Copenhagen, going by the official casualty lists, estimated these losses at 2,250,000, a total which agreed fairly closely with the French official estimate. A Rotterdam paper, also going by the casualty lists, estimates the total for Prussia at 2,339,000, which, on the basis of population, would amount for all Germany to 3,713,000, or a good deal more than a million over the British official estimate. These casualty lists make no mention of the sick, and the Austrians, at any rate, have let it be known that in their ranks “the hardships of the campaign have made almost as many victims as the battles.’’
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1527, 25 March 1916, Page 2
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168GERMAN CASUALTIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1527, 25 March 1916, Page 2
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