GERMANY'S MAN POWER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16266, 27 June 1916, Page 8

GERMANY'S MAN POWER.

NO FRESH UNITS AVAILABLE.

The following information, dated May 17 comes from a source on which fall reliance may be placed, says the London Morning Post:—The military critic of the Bund asserted in a recent article that Germany has at its disposal trained reserves who have not yet been engaged on any front It is comprehensible that the German command should consider it important to have circulated the idea that its human resources are far from being exhausted, but the statement of the Bund writer the source of whose convictions is well known, will hardly suffice of itself. Experience enables us to be certain on this point Firstly, Germany is at the present time incapable of forming fresh unite without rismng the feeding of the men in the units already existing. Secondly, Germany has to-day in its depots only a portion of the 1916 Glass, together with restored wounded and recuperated reformes —men pronounced unfit for service. From these three categories exclusively came the troops who constituted the reinforcements 6ent to Verdun. The number of men of the 1916 Class at present available may be estimated at iio-,000 men. Of cured wounded there are about 100,000, and as to the " unfit for service," the large majority are fit for nothing more than service behind the lines. After this tne German army will have no resources beyond the 1917 Class, recently embodied, and not yet trained. These are facte which cannot be upset even by the best inspired articles.