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Show GERMANS ANNOUNCE SOME WAR FIGURES Central Powers Have Taken 2,658,000 Prisoners and 11,036 Cannon. i BERLIN, July 30. by wireless to Say-ville Say-ville The German government has issued is-sued officially tho figures relating to the i conquests at the end of the second year ! of the war, In a statement which reads: "The central powers occupied 431,000 I square kilometers against ISO, 000 a year ago. The enemy occupied in Europe ! 22,000 square kilometers, against 1 1,000 ! a year ago. j "The central powers, Bulgaria and i Turkey captured 2,trS.0v-0 enemy soldiers, i against l,tiii,uu0. of those taken prisoner pris-oner by the Germans, 547 officers and 34 S, 000 men were French; 9019 officers and 1.202.000 men were Russian, and SIT officers and 30.000 men w ere British. "The war booty brought to Germany, in addition to that utilized immediately at the front, comprised 11,036 cannon. 4,700.000 shells, 3450 machine guns and I.doG.OOO rifles. "According to the list of statistics of German wounded soldiers, 90. U per cent returned to the front, 1.4, per cent died; tlte rest were untit for service or were released. The military measures of the central powers. In consequence of vaccinations, vacci-nations, were never disturbed by epidemics." |