Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-01 | Page 4 | Are Losses Lighter?

ARK LOSSES LIGHTER? Whether the denmnii for conscription in Gvar liit:iiu is ;s insisftit as it was several w ce';s ago may be doubted. "British lo-es tliis year have not reached tho proportions predicted by Lloyd-C Lloyd-C eorge. In April the of?C3 did not exceed JO. POO and in March ti'.ev were not nore than 2.".Y0. Tdo d-il eorge e.timatd rhat the a--:;ige e.uring the year would be 7 per eert a innnii. He did nor give the p'-im i; ai figure on whirh the 7 per cent was ba-ed, b:;r t!ie ro! 'ability is that he was referring to the forces actively ac-tively engaged in all theaters of war perhaps 1 .-" uOh m nien. Apparently he believed th.it the wa-tag-1 for the year "ov.ld eX'-ee-l 1 .' " ' '0, but at (lie present pres-ent rare if wou'd 'ot b 'ha it -t'OjO j. Lloyd ( ; e,i-e X e-' ' o!lt le, however, looked forwa rd to a grea t allied offensive of-fensive on the v. t'-tern front and that off en-he, we ai'f- r.istitied in assuming, v, ill he att-mo' . d bei ore the sunrer All sign point to a lighter loss in eery a"i-y. ov e:: pe-hap tiie l-encn, than w.v s'-fferf ! in I'Jlo, The Gerrna:: :.rmy, di ite tae 'o-es at Verdun, cannot can-not be -uffer:;-j as hra ily as in l!'!-" '.'.hen lliev y.ero carrying forward the Lreat of f.o-si v.- in b'us;a, the Kalkans and at pros and fighting rteadilv on Ih-' v'e-ri frmit a:' i or, -a -"i, 1 v roil ro-il :tg!, ' ie ..-: a- the Ei.gb-ii 01- f.'ii-iv.:3 in the spring and fall and the French offensive in the Champagne i.oiint.ry. The (".erma n In-? in 1C415 tnut have been oVHiii.uvO. The total loss in the first four months of 1016 does not -eem to have exceeded U00,000 and probably did not attain that total. But the year is yet young and we may expect two or throe offensives as fierce and a costly as that at Verdun.