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Show GERMANY'S LOSSES PLACED AT 360,000 FEARFUL SLAUGHTER OF HUNS IN RECENT BATTLES ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Seventy Thousand Prisoners and Seventeen Sev-enteen Hundred Guns Taken by the Allies Since July 18. Germans Using Boys to Fill Gaps. I'aris. The Huns are not only being fb'iven back, hut are losing heavily in men and munitions. Our booty in prisoners pris-oners and guns, which now is officially official-ly reported ill TO.Oilll men and 1 TOO can non since .luly IS, is recognized as the biggest haul the allies have made since the war began, and there is every reason rea-son to suppose that the laic of cap-lures cap-lures is by no means ended. The Oer-inan Oer-inan losses since Foeli launched his lov on July IS are estimated at oliO.-)O0 oliO.-)O0 men killed, wounded and prisoners. The belief is growing that the Germans Ger-mans are much nearer the end of their tether than the rest of the world has tieen allowed to guess. It is known that to make up for the awful wastage n the Aisne-Marne salient anil on the Sonime the Germans have had practically prac-tically to empty their depots in the interior, in-terior, and that many thousands of eoliths belonging to i lie class of l'.fcMl. ahich still are only in the training -tage. have already been drafted into garrison work. Using Up IWan Power. There is now little doubt that the Jormans have thrown in erery avail-ible avail-ible reserve division on the Somnie, toping- to avoid thereby a general retreat re-treat along an extensive section of their line. So far as can be seen at present, their resistance on tit" Smiiine eanimt possibly continue much longer, in vvliich case their retreat, when if .omes, will prove all the more costly from its delay and all the more disastrous, dis-astrous, because they will be still less ti a position' to stand the still heavier osses it will involve. The key to the situation, according to opinion here, lies very probably in Russia. In his insatiable greed for expansion ex-pansion at other people's expense the German lias, in vulgar but expressive phrase, bitten off more than he can swallow, and his boasted "conquests" .in Russia are bidding fair to prove his ruin on the western front. Russ Situation a Mystery. The entire Russian situation, however, how-ever, is for the moment admittedly a mystery. Many people Here incline 10 the view that the Germans, in view of their critical shortage of man-power, ire deliberately seeking a breach with the Maximalists in order to have a pretext pre-text for seizing Petrograd. which would give them an excuse to withdraw with-draw their troops from the interior of Russia and take up a shorter line nearer home. On the other hand, there is a groat probability that the Germans, in the face of the opening of the allied ampaisxn in Siberia on the White sea, tire preparing to accept the inevitable .ind fall back, because they are unable, through sheer lack of men, to under take a fresh Russian campaign wuu any chance of success. |