The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915. HUN LOSSES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915. HUN LOSSES.

At tlio (Mid of Juno, by tlie application of the arithmetical method to the known facts of the campaign, .Mr Hilaire Belloc arrived at the conclusion tlj.it the'Germans and Austrians must leave lost about three millions and a quarter in killed, wounded and missing, and that with the sick and deserters tin* enemy’s effectives must have been reduced by nearly lour millions. A Lyttelton Times writer points out .that the big drive in Galicia was then in progress, and the great efforts in Poland were still to come, so that Mr Belloc may subsequently have modified his conclusion, but he was prepared to say that it was inconceivable that the enemy would he able to renew the offensive in the west and at the same time maintain a sound defence on the Italian frontier. If that is the - case the stories ol the organisation of a new offensive against Serbia must he fiction, designed, perhaps, to keep the Balkan States quiet. Seeing that for many weeks the Grown Prince’s army has been endeavouring to build up a big advance in the Argonne, it is perhaps premature id claim that the enemy are no longer capable-df big efforts in the west. At any rate the German newspapers have been describing the activity in the Argonne as the commencement of the great ’aiilnnm offensive in the western theatre. ,