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Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1917, Page 5

Sir William Robertson, speaking to a London Press gathering, said: The greatest peculiarity of the war was the colossal numbers engaged, amounting to something like 24,000,000 men. In the war of 1870 the armies numbered from 100,000 to IiOO.OOO men on each side, and at Gravelotte, where the casualties were highest, they reached "0,000 on both <sides. For the whole war the tolal killed and wounded was below 500,000. In the prasent war the killed alone tould be counted by the million. It was no( a war between armies, but between rations, and no man or woman in the Empire but would not do something to v.in or lose the war. A man of distinction told him the other day that he estimated that in the present war 25 per crnt. of the weight was represented by the military strength and 75 per cent, by non-military things, such as agriculturo, shipping, food, and diploauoy,