Show German Birth firth Rate 1 Third hird of Losses in Man Power LONDON July Germany Germany at Germany at last has reached the turning point where I her fighting force is being depleted mu much h more moro rapidly than it can be supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied with new men and military ob observers observers observers ob- ob servers belle belle believe e a her entire reserves which which cannot possibly exceed 70 will be completely exhausted wi within hin a avery avery avery very few months Reduced to figures Germany is losing men a month in killed incapacitated by wounds from further service and prisoners or 1200 a year Some authorities place lace the number at double those amounts She is gaining from new recruits fewer than a year This leaves a net loss to her army of men a year ear a loss which cannot be replaced Already Germany has called to the colors the class of 1917 to furnish stock for slaughter slaughter meat for cannon Bismarck used to call them Germanys Germany's population in 1910 was 6 in in 1900 It was J showing an increase of in the theten theten theten ten years ears This does not include a population population pop pop- of about In the tho POP POP-I German German Getman Ger Get man colonies in Africa and Asia which were immediately cut off oft on the beginning beginning begin begin- begin I ning of the war from being of any use to the mother country from the viewpoint viewpoint view view- I point of military strength The colonies colonies colonies colo colo- nies of England France and Belgium view view-I it may Y be bo mentioned have on the other hand been a source of constantly In Increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing additions to the military power pow pow- er of those countries Germanys Germany's average average average aver aver- age Increase In population for the ten years mentioned d Was about There Is a slight excess of ot male births 1060 1060 boys to every 1000 girls This would give an average increase of males malos to females An estimated estimated esti esti- mated yearly early addition of I estl-I men mento mento mento to the tho army out of born Is certainly certainly certainly a very very liberal liberal allowance Regarding losses the German official lists of casualties since the war began up up to June 1 give dead wounded and prisoners and missing a total of for the two twenty-two months months about about a month or a year Yearly Net Loss This yearly gross is four times as asi i much as the annual addition to the army by the most liberal estimate Assuming Assuming Assuming As As- suming that 40 per cent of tIe the wounded return to the ranks this would reduce the net loss to a year against an annual recruitment of Even if it all alt the wounded should return the dead missing and prisoners outnumber the new recruits half halt as much again It also should be remembered that these figures of loss against gain are the most extreme figures figures figures fig fig- ures In favor of Germany Even the German staff In a statement Issued last month asserted that it was assured assured assured as as- of o only y recruits a month as long as the war lasted which makes males a year or fewer than the number above allotted Concerning the strength of the German German German Ger Ger- man army the Paris Liberte estimates the total at of which there are arc divisions of men each on both fronts and left as reserves Swiss reports say that the German Germa re re- re I serves have diminished this Ulis year b by 1 and that recruits have been added making a net decrease of I men All the German reserves according to the Agenzia LIbera cannot cannot cannot can can- not exceed men whereas there were more than a million at the end of ot 1915 Contrary to her tier hopes aroused by the Balkan drive Germany can expect expect expect ex ex- no help from Bulgaria or Turkey On the contrary she has been obliged to keep men in Turkey in n Bulgaria and andIn andin andin In Austria a. a Verdun is eating into Germanys Germany's strength at a more rapid rate than any other event since the war began Colonel Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- nel Feyler a Swiss military expert generally recognized in Europe as one of ot the most Impartial and best Informed critics of the war estimates that the Germans up to June 1 used about men at Verdun and puts their losses at The Paris Petit Journal Journal Journal Jour Jour- nal describes describE's Verdun as not a battle but a surgical blood letting on a grand scale and says that when the flow begins begins begins be be- gins to slacken another vein is opened Blasting Barrier of Dead One English observer is quoted assaYing assaying as assaying saying of the slaughter here I could clearly see see through my field glasses the Germans moving forward in mass formation Suddenly the French guns opened and mangled humanity humanity humanity hu hu- hu- hu manity was piled in windrows I thought the battle ended but in a short time another line lino in solid soUd formation formation forma forma- tion was sent steadily forward and as they started to pass over the piled up heaps of their dead and dying comrades comrades com com- rades the French cannon again blazed and the pile of ot dead and wounded looked a solid soUd wallI wallI wall I never had dreamed of ot such slaughter but the sight that followed I 1 think no man ever before saw High explosive shells began blowing into pieces the masses of dead and dying It seemed fiendish I fiendish I wondered that the French Fretch were so Insatiate when Insatiate when horror of ot horrors I discovered that the explosive shells were from the German guns uns blasting blasting- the walls waIls of de dead d and dying that another line line of ot eGerman German troops might pass through and execute the German order Forward British estimates place the German losses at V Verdun Vedun dun for four tour months at men that is is more than Colonel Feylers Feyler's estimate of to June 1 These estimates are based up upon captured documents statements I of prisoners and other sources At the same time the French losses from the tha I same source were placed at men In killed and wounded I With a net loss of men meD fj r year Jear I Germanys Germany's 1 present resent arm army of men would be exhausted In five I years if no other factor should intervene I But while Germanys Germany's man power Is declining de declining de- de clining that of the allies is growing True the French army is losing though not so rapidly as that of Germany but the British forces are being constantly recruited from all 1111 quarters of the tho globe and Russia Russi has practically an inexhaustible inexhaustible inex inex- supply At the worst the theames allies ames can maintain their I present strength while that of Germany is bound to decline at an Increasingly I arithmetical ratio tatlo I |