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Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1916, Page 2

GERMANY'S LACK OF MEN. 1917 CLASS ALREADY, AMONG THE PRISONERS, Germany's resources in men are declining rapidly. The new formations put on a war footing in 1914 and 191!) in the hope of striking decisive blows have been absorbed by the boundless extension of the actual fronts, and are now contributing their share to the wastage of men. Of particular note (says the Daily News, London) are the losses of South Germans, on whom Prussia is drawing to a serious extent. German effectives, up to March, 1915, were kept up by the utilisation of the volunteers of the classes, of 1914, 1915, 1916, and by the incorporation of men of the Ersatz (Second Reserve). In July and August last Germany had exhausted the resources which could be commanded from the normal incorporation of the classes up to twenty years of age. The men of the class of 1910 began, to npppar after the first attacks on Verdun. At the outset they represented only about 20 per cent, of the reinforcements; now they represent 50 per cent. In May of this year, as a consequence of the premature exhaustion of the class of 1910, men of the class of 1917 were poured into the depots at the front. In certain Army Corps the class of 1917 has already entered the firing line, and some have been taken prisoner by the Allies. Mare particularly in Southern Germany and in the region of Dresden the depots have been emptied to make room for the class of 1918. the first incorporations of which have been notified. In France the class of 1917 is still in the interior, and there is no thought of calling upon the class of 1918

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