GERMAN LOSSES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 29, 12 August 1871, Page 16

GERMAN LOSSES.

The German losses turn out says the “ pall Mall Gazette,” on a revision of the official lists, to have been smaller than was at first believed. The total loss in killed, wounded, and missing, amounts to 47,662, 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 large, indeed so considerable as to be unique in history. The “ Breslauer Zeitung,” whose patriotic pride enumerates the long list which it compares with our paltry acquisitions 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 wars. Thus at the Alma we took two colors and two guns, at Inkerman we lost three guns, and at the storming of the Malakoff we captured one standard and 31 guns. The number of prisoners in the campaign did not exceed 6000. The entire spoils of the French in 1859 consisted of three colors, twenty-six guns, and 16,000 prisoners. The Prussians on the other hand, took at Duppel 19 colors, 119 guns, and 3400 prisoners ; at Alsen, 13 colors, 99 guns, and 2494 prisoners; at Konigratz, 7 colors, 161 guns and 19,800 piisoners ; altogether in 1866, 13 colors, 208 guns, and 49,000 prisoners. The figures for the late war are move formidable still At Spichern, Pange, Gravelotte, Vionville, L’Hallu, arid Bapaume, indeed hardly any trophies were taken. But at 'W’issembourg 2 colors, 1 gun, and 800 prisoners were captured ; at Woerth, 2 eagles, 34 guns, 6 mitrailleurs, and 4,000 prisoners ; at Beaumont, 8 eagles and colors, over 50 guns, and 20,000 prisoners ; at Sedan, 400 guns and mitrailleurs, and 80,000 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, 0,400 guns, and 374,995 prisoners, to which ought to be added 84,000 interned in Switzerland, and 6,000 interned in Belgium. The capitulation of Paris has added other 170,000 prisoners, the number of trophies being not yet accu rately stated.