HEAVY HUN LOSSES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 36, 18 January 1916, Page 4

HEAVY HUN LOSSES.

There is every reason to believe that German losses of late have been far heavier than admitted. The Berlin 'correspondent of the New York "Evening Post," writing under date of October sth, says that the casualties for the single week ending October Ist were 61,955. Since it takes a week or more to compile the reports from the front, he says, these figures

can have no connection with the great fight along the Western front. where during the renewed British and; French offensive, it is said, the lossesj were three times greater than during' any similar period of the war. The seven days from September 23rd tO | September 30th, says the correspond-, ent were not above the average oi the last two months, and he took these; figures simply because they were thej latest and most available. Tn the lists posted in the corridor of the' Berlin War Office there are 120 names in each column. On September ! 30th there were 72 columns, making 8640 casualties, on September 29th, 60 columns, giving 0200 names, and the losses for other days of the week figured in' The' same ''''waV were:'Sep'-; tember 28th, 9000; September 27th, 8625; September 26th. no list posted;, September''2sth (the date of the Allied offensive). 11.080; September 24th,| 8810; and September 23rd. 8700. By, far the greatest losses were sustained by the Prussians, who; it is reported, have lost more than 2,000,000 men. In certain instances companies and even entire regiments were wiped out. An example is given by a correspondent of the 3rd Company of the 03rd Prussian Reserve Infantry, j which lost 246 men out of a total of, 250. Of these 84- were killed outright, 49 were severely wounded, and the remainder slightly wounded. Not a man was captured. The German newspapers, the correspondent writes.' say little about the extent of losses.' and the War Office neither calculates

nor encourages their calculation ; in fact, the copying and republishing of lists in Grman newspapers is strictly forbidden. Put for the benefit of friends and relatives the names of individual dead, wounded, and missing are systematically and honestly posted each day during the severe lighting.