Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 68, 25 February 1916, Page 5

Germany

LOSSES DURING THE WAR. OFFICIAL LISTS CORRECTED. HILAIRE BELLOC’S FIGURES. United Buesh Association . London, February 23. Mr Hilaire Belloc contributes to “Land and Water” a well-reasoned analysis of the German losses, alter a visit to the best sources of information in Europe and a thorough study of the (facts. He says: It is proven that the 'Germans killed to the end of 1915 exceeded one million. The total appearing in corrected German official lists is 651,763, but these are inaccurate and incomplete, and he estimates that 160,000 dead arc included in the lists of missing. Mr Belloc’s inquiries showed that while the private lists of jthe dead did not differ materially from 'the official lists at the beginning of the |war, a discrepancy appears later, becoming more marked during 1915. Official lists show a decline, hut private lists show no decline. The official lists have been quoted largely in Europe and America, immensely to the advantage of the enemy side. Iho 'real losses, on the private lists, have been compiled from the most accurate 'sources, namely, the individual notices of deaths sent to families. Mr Belloc’s own investigations prove the falsity of the German figures. He asserts that he discovered nearly 70 per cent, of names on the French lists of prisoners, actually in French camps, who were taken from distinct regiments where they were omitted from German lists. IN NEED OF COTTON. ! . Stockholm, February 23. The Hagens Nyheter, which is published daily in Stockholm, states that Germany is badly in need of cotton, 1 as the British blockade stopped all supplies.