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Show WAR FIGURES BY GERMANS. Central Powers Have Taken 2,658,000 Prisoners and 11,036 Cannon. Berlin. The German government has issued officially the figures relating relat-ing to the conquests at the end of the second year of the war, in a statement which reads: "The central powers occupied 431,-000 431,-000 square kilometers against 180,000 a year ago. The enemy occupied in Europe 22,000 square kilometers, against 11,000 a year ago. "The central powers, Bulgaria and Turkey captured 2,658,000 enemy soldiers, sol-diers, against 1,695,000. Of those taken prisoner by the Germans, 5,947 officers and 348,000 men were French; 9,019 officers and 1,202,000 men were Russian, and 947 officers and 30,000 men were British. "The war booty brought to Germany, Ger-many, in addition to that utilized immediately im-mediately at the front, comprised 11,-036 11,-036 cannon, 4,700,000 shells, 3,450 machine ma-chine guns and 1,556,000 rifles. "According to the list of statistics of German wounded soldiers, 90.2 per cent returned to the front, 1.4 per cent died; the rest were unfit for service serv-ice or were released. The military measures of the central powers, in consequence of vaccinations, were never disturbed by epidemics." |