GERMANY’S DWINDLING MANPOWER.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 17 September 1917, Page 6

GERMANY’S DWINDLING MANPOWER.

SOME STRIKING FIGURES. LONDON, September 14. Mr Warner Allen writes: Germany’s dwindling man-power is shown by the fact that she is calling up recruits as they reach the age of r l7 years. Germany during the war has had fourteen million men available between the ages of 17 and 45, whereof 5| million were mobilised in 1914 and added 2.450.000 to the army in 1915, 1,800,000. in 1916, an 450,000 in 1917. The rest of the 1919 and 1920 contingents will make the army 11,200,000, whereof the' Germans admit that I,lsß,o(73*iiave been killed, 2,922,000 wounded and 710.000 missing. The Allies’ calculations show a permanent loss of four millions.’ Gorman man-power is thus distributjed. Now in the army, 5$ million; shortly to be incorporated 1,300,000; in hospital, half a million; abroad 200,000; permanently unfit for tfie army, 2,000,000 able-bodied men required for the interior half a million.