The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 29th., 1916. GERMANY'S MAN POWER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1570, 29 June 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 29th., 1916. GERMANY'S MAN POWER.

THE I'ollowing'' informalion, dated Alay ITlli, comes from a source on which full reliance may lie placed, says (he London Morning Post:— The military critic of Hie Hand asserted in a recent- article that (lerinany hits at its disposal trained reserves who have not, yet been engaged on any front. It is comprehensible thill the (lerntan command should consider it important to have circulated the idea, that its human resources are tar from being exhausted, but the statement of the Hand writer, the source of witose convictions is well known, will hardly suffice of itself. Experience enables us to he certain on this point. Firstly, (lerinany is at the present lime incapable of forming fresh units without risking' the feeding of the men in the units already existing. Secondly, Germany has to-day in its depots only a portion of the 191(5 class, together with restored wounded and recuperated reforms —men pronounced until for service. From these three categories exclusively came the troops who constituted the reinforcements sent to Verdun. The number of men ot the 191(5 Class at present available may be estimated at 200,000 men. Of cured wounded there are about 100,000, and as to the “unfit for service,'’ the large majority are tit for nothing more than service behind the lines. After (his the German army will have no resources beyond the 1917 Class, recently embodied, and not yet trained. These are facts which cannot be upset even by the best inspired articles.