GERMAN ARMY WASTAGE.
M. Henry Bidou, the most erudite French military critic, writing in the weekly journal published by the Government for the men in the trenches, shows how rapidly Germany is using up her man-power. "The more her resources are exhausted," he says, "the more costly do her battles become. Verdun cost her 56 divisions in a year and the Somme 96 in six months. In two months this spring she lost 112 divisions, and since then the battle of Flanders ha s added formidably to the wastage. How can she face this expenditure?" M. , however, believes that Germany will hold out to the last, and that "she will die erect and collapse suddenly after a last defeat."
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Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 3
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119GERMAN ARMY WASTAGE. Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 3
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