The Daily News. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1914 NUMBERS WILL TELL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 11 November 1914, Page 4

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1914 NUMBERS WILL TELL.

A cable message a week or so ago told us that Germany has 18,000,000 reservists to come. Tli is is absurd. Thero cannot be that number of men in Germany. Probably Germany could at the com-' mencenient of the struggle have by a supreme effort mustered eight millions—not more. Her available forces were estimated at between 4,000,000 and

5,000,000. The Times' military writer gave it as five millions. Supposing, however, Germany could havo drawn on eight millions at first: Her wastage has since been colossal. She has not spared her men in any way, driving thousands and thousands to certain slaughter. The official accounts of the latest fighting' oil the Yprea show how reckless Germany has been of human life. Ik the earlier stages of the war, her losses were equally enormous. In their retreat from lions the Britishers inflictj ed a loss on the enemy that has been computed at fifty thousand, whilst at about the same time the French took toll of the Crown Prince's army. That has been estimated at as high as one hundred thousand. Then came the sanguinary fighting ou the Marne and the Aisne. On the Eastern frontier, against the Russians, the German losses must have been considerable. Henri Belioc, i the. well-known writer, whose loreeast ol j the campaign of the Germans lias proved amazingly accurate, states, according to j a late witc, the total losses of the Germans to be one million and three-quar-ters. The figures are stupendous. They cannot be very far out. Accepting Belloc's figures, then the fighting powei of the Germans has been reduced by onefourth —and the war has been going but I fourteen weeks. Hut the toughest work j lias yet to come. The Germans will have before many weeks are over to i defend their hearths and homes, and the sacrifice of life will be great indeed before they are vanquished, as they must and will be. Numbers will tell in the

final struggle. Germany's legions are j rapidly being thinned. So no doubt are I France's. France cannot find any more! men. Probably ere this.she lias called up her last man. Russia has twice as ivaiv men to draw from as Germany, nn.'l can keep on pouring them into Austria and. Germany,' and at the same time deal eliectnally with Turkey. Austria, as a military factor cannot seri-i (»k]y be recloned with. She can never recover from the deadly blow she re-I'-ived at Lemberg and more recently on the Pan. Germany at most cannot op-

uiv-i- the Ru"sians with more than two j millions. She must have nearly three j millions guarding her communications j anil maintaining her fronts on the West, i Tr. is here whore tlio British como in. We f : have probably half a million men on the i Continent now. The First Army com-. i prised about 100,000 men. The Second'' • Army was intended to consist of 500,000. ■ i ! I These latter liavo been in action, as ' shown by the report of the wonderful : i fighting power exhibited by the London \ J Scottish in the terrific battle on the i ' Ypres. Then there arc the Indians, who ! number oyer 70,000 men. If the whole . of the Second Army is engaged, Britain must have ,700,000 men in the field. This is a very presentablei force, but according to Kitchener it will be increased until it reaches a million and a-quarter. The losses will be steadily repaired out j of reserves, and so the army, or armies, 1 will be maintained at full war strength.! In a war of attrition, as Kitchener predicted it would resolve itself into, the British, therefore, will come out bottt-i" relativoly than the enemy, and will prove the deciding factor in the ultimate issue. Indeed, there is reason to believe that Britain's intervention has already prov■cd the determining factor. But for it, : Germany must undoubtedly have hacked j France to pieces and dealt a staggering ! blow to Russia, The '''contemptible liti tie British Army" has upset the oalcnla- : tiens of the Kaiser just as the same "contemptible nation of shopkeepers" upJ set the plana of Napoleon a hundred (years ago. Britain will be in "at'the j 1.-ill" this time as siic was after Water. ; 100, am!, with the Allies, take earn that i the peace of Europe will not again be i '.vantonly and criminally broken by the j arrogance and ambition of any despot or ; r-'iiiiarv caste, i

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