AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

DWINDLING MAN-POWER. A COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT. Received Sept. 14. °.4r> p.m. London, Se;jt. 14. J«\ Warner Allen writes that Germany's dwindling man-power i? shown from the fact that she is calling up recruits as they reach the age of seventeen. Germany, durinp the war, had fourteen million, available between 17 end 33, whereof 5,4 millions were mobilised in IKI4. ami added "2,4.50000 to the army in 1915, 1.500.000 iu 1916, and 400.000 ill 1917. The rest of the 1919 and 1920 contingents will make the army 11,200,000 whereof the Germans admit that 1.155.000 have been killed, 2,922,000 wounded, and 710000 missing. The Aiiief' calculation* sliow thera Is a permanent loss of four million in <.crmau Man-power, thus distributed: There is row an arniv of oJ milium: there will shortly be incorporated ],SOO,jdO, in hospital, half a million; abroad, 200,0XJ; permanently unfit for the- army, two million, wiiiie the number of able-bodied men required for the interior amounts to hail a million. EASILY-GULLED PEOFLE. A STATEMENT WITH AN OBJECT. A. md N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter. Amsterdam, Sept. 13. The Vossiche Zeitung saY3 it is asserted that Britain has made peace advances io Germany. The Vossiche Zeitung declares the announcement cxplpins the violent movo. meats on the Berlin bourse, and -.ygests that financiers have sold stocks to small holders who are more susceptible to panic.