GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

LOSSES DURING THE WAR. FALSITY OF OFFICIAL LIST? Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. ' ' London, Feb. 23. Mr. Hilaire Belloc contributes to 'Land and 'Water a well-reasoned analysis of the German losses, after a visit to the best saurce* of information in Europe and a thorough study of the facts. He says: It is proven that the Germans killed to the end of 1915 exceeded one million. The total appearing in corrected German official lists is 851,78*, but these are inaccurate and incomplete, and he estimates that 160,000 dead are included in the lists of missing. Mr. Belloc's inquiries showed that while the private lists of the dead did net differ materially from the official lists at the beginning of the war, a discrepancy appears later, becoming more marked during 1915. Official lists show a decline, but private lists show no decline. The official lists have been quoted hugely in Europe and America, immensely t* the advantage of the enemy side. The real lessee, on the private lists, have been compiled from the most accurate seurces, namely, the individual notices of deaths sent t» families. Mr. Belloc's own investigations prove the falsity of the German figures. He asserts that he discovered nearly 70 per cent, of names ou the French lists of prisoners, actually in French camps, who were taken from distinct regiments where they were omitted from German lists. HARD TIP FOR COTTON, Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. , ■ Stockholm, Feb. 23. The Dagen Snyheter states that Germany is badly in need of cotton, a 3 the British blockade stopped all supplies.