GERMAN LOSSES THIS YEAR ESTIMATED AT SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 173, 22 July 1918, Page 5

GERMAN LOSSES THIS YEAR ESTIMATED AT SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND.

STEADILY DIMINISHING RESULTS OF EFFORTS. TOO EARLY YET FOB ALLIES TO OPEN BIG ATTACK. (Received 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. Lieut.-C'oloncl a'Court Repington, writing in the '"Daily Chronicle/ estimates that during the last four months of the campaign the German lossef cannot be less than six hundred thousand. The successive efforts show steadilj diminishing results, while the Allies' hopes of the future are greater. He. attributed LudendorfTs reluctance to attack Amiens or the north, and his avoidance of Rheinis, to internal German troubles, "while his strategy was affected by the dread of losing men. lie acids that the cheerful Tommies arc convinced that they can* do what they like with the rest of the German armies. When the scales are 'beginning to turn over towards our side we must be coo; and prudent. The Americans are the last amiy reserve of civilisation. The Allies must not open a gTeat offensive till they have established a superiority of force sufficient to ensure victory. Mr. Philip Gibbs says that the capture of Metcren gives us good observation of the enemy ground. The garrison were living wretchedly in cellar?. Our puns pounding above made the place hellish. The Germans arc now disillusioned and the men no longer believe in an easy victory.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)