GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 2 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

PREPARING FOR WINTER WAR. RUSSIANS CLAM COLD-WEATHER SUPERIORITY. APPALLING LOSSES OF SOLDIERS. London, September 30. Rotterdam reports that thy Germans are preparing for a winter fiwip-rirn. lien have been withdrawn from fighting, and are returning to factories to Ipwpare sheepskin coats. The Russians aver that Germans have not been trained to pursue hostilities- in winter, while the are more active as the snoni and ice increases.

Rotterdam, September 30. The Germing are vigorously preparing for a winter campaign. One. nundied and fifty thousand officers' fur coats have already been delivered. The Government luoa bought two million sheep ami kanUs' sfldns l for men's garments.

Copenhagen, September 20. The 35th German casualty list is as follows:—Officers, 00 Mlled, WO wounded,' 7 missing; men, 001 killed. 545!! wounded, 1-18.7 missing. The lists to date include 58S pages, each of three columns, comprising aibout 300,000 na.mcs altogether. There were 117,0W> casualties to the 'beginning of September. The lists include losses on the Maine and Aisne and the Russian frontier. The latest list reveals that a loss of 200 men flier regiment is common. The. flOth Tegiment of infantry lost 34 officers and non-coms, and 682 men killed and 200 officers a,nd men wounded or missing. [A German regiment is about 2000 men.] AXCnEEUt ESTIMATE OF THE LOSSES. HALF A MILLION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 1, fi.3o p.m. London, September 30. A foreign military authority in Faris (sWrnates the German losses at half «i million.