FRENCH WAR LOSSES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 23 August 1916, Page 3

FRENCH WAR LOSSES.

A summary of the French losses for the first nineteen months of the war appeared in a recent number of the “Berliner Tageblatt. ” Its military critic. Major Maral.t, asserted that the late General Gabion; had reported

privately that up to March 1- —consequently before the Verdun battle —• Mie French armies had lost 800,000

killed and 300,000 missing'.—the majority probably prisoners or buried by the Germans, and 1,400,000 wounded, of .whom 400,000 were crippled. Tliis sacrifice has been widely quoted in the neutral countries of Europe. Curiosity as to the French losses has been groat, because, so far, the Government lias refused to give out any figures whatever. Some time before the German report*was printed there was circulated in Paris a report that the losses had been added up, and the most curious part of it is that the figures cited by Major Moraht are exactly- the same as those mentioned in the private Paris gossip, which shows that there must b c some pretty direct ‘leaks’ between Paris and Berlin, in spite of censorship.