GERMANY'S CHANGED FEELING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15464, 17 December 1915, Page 8

GERMANY'S CHANGED FEELING.

TERRIBLE WAR LOSSES.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT'S OBSERVATIONS. ;?|

Mr Horace Green, a well-known New \' York journalist, recently paid a second visit to Germany during tho war, on be- * half of the New York 'Ironing Post." V Writing on October Bth ho contrasts the. i feeling in Germany at the beginning of | tho war and the feeling after fourteen £ months of tho struggle. He says:—- ' *£j Two weeks ago I crossed tho German \|l frontier at tho samo spot where I cane .)&! in last year after the bombardment l «f 'M Antwerp. I. wished to compare^,4& r situation then and now, to.' see, f wW j| twelve months more fighting had don&jffH for the Teutons, and to study the Ger«^B man attitude towards America. My^§fl fellow passengers on the rinc-honr trip j|B from Bentheim to the capital were all*||B older men—for young civilians aro son- -?Hm existent nowadays. They discussed |3 various subjects, and, occasionally, but |9 rather quietly, the war. Last year, '-^m i under similar circumstances, a carload of German travellers would have filled ~~jM j the air with vitriolic argument, the v 'jl j rights of Germany, the treachery of ~~4m {England, tho fact that Russia's mo- Sm , bilisation started tho war. that' Prance e^l i would have eomo through Belgium if J . Germany had not, that the Fatherland JJ was united to a man, would fight till ' , England's back was broken, and so ?^< forth and so on. A year ago such, £- groups were bustling, bristling, full of '"*? fight and full of hate; to-day they art , f resigned, calm, tolerant. Since thetfl '- havo listened to the crowds in restan- *t rants, in tho streets and at the barracks'*,* at Spandau Hof. And I have talked^; to many individuals. They discuss the^ffi war. They no longer argue, quarrel, |bi and ravo. To-day Germany is like a ' -j* feverish patient to whom the leech nsa-^/v been applied—tho war maniac whose'*'**' I blood bus been drained. . , # ~ f£ I I worked for some time trying to get' Jj ' tho proper figures of this blood-lettingj, jl found ■the answer on the walls ««* K| • corridors and written in the files of the ! War Office, just around the corner from |s tho Neue Wilhelmstrasse. Hero the „$ I casualty lists havo been compiled up to J,* | October 2nd. By the newspapers, h ! which are not much more than official ; bulletins.' there is little said about the j extent of losses, and tho War Office $£ I neither calculates nor encourages their ! calculation. In fact, copying and re- ,% ! publishing tho lists in German papers u x >, ! strictly forbidden. But for the bene- 4| | fit of friends and relatives the names of "i, 1 individual dead, wounded, and missing ?+ jaro systematically and honestly posted ».„< ! each dav during sever© fighting: _ ~% 1 Tho German casualties for the single S iweek ending October list were 61,855! 4 lln other words. 61,955 German cituwns, \\ lor more than 8850 a day, have been £j\ killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the last seven days of Russian war- f I fare. Sinco it takes a week or more f "to compile tho reports from tho front*-*:-£ those figures can have no connexion with tho groat fight of this week along ,^ i tho Western front, where, during the %•&; ! renewed English-French offensive it 5* /% ■ said that tho losses were thro© times * i greater than any similar period of the > ( iwar. © , J 1 The seven days from September 23rd t * to 30th. inclusive, were not abore the J^ average of the past two months. ,I took .j the figures because they were tho latest- % i. and tho most easily available. On cacn > a column were 120 names, thus: Johann ,^ Schmidt, Carl Broedigcr, Rudolph HaenIter; and after each name, slightly \* wounded, scverelv wounded, missing, --j dead. On September 30th thero were 72 colnmns of names, making a total ] of BG4A losses. On September 29tb .<i thero were 60 columns, giving i*W '^ names; and the losses for the other ~< days of tho week, figured in tho ft** o6 <. wav, wore as follows: —September -Btn, ' 9000; September 27th, 8625; September 26th no list posted; September 2otn, 11.080; September 24th, 8810; Septem- - b«r 23rd 8700. j By far tho greatest number of losses were sustained by the Prussians. It * - r reported that the Prussians alone hat€ r lost more than 2,000,000 men up to this , date. In all eases the Prussian, Saxon, and Bavarian losses were grouped separately. In certain instances companics and even entire regiments were * J wiped out. A random example is the . Third Company of the Sixty-third Pro*- isian Reserve Infantry, which lost **0 ■» men. A companv's war footing is -o«» Of theso 8-1 were "gefalien" (killedout- , right), 49 severely wounded, the remainder slightly wounded, Not a man \ was captured, iv