GERMAN CASUALTIES

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 3

GERMAN CASUALTIES

NEARLY 4,000,000.

The following is the latest estimate of the German casualties reported in the German official casualty lists :—, Casualties (exclusive of corrections) reported during the month of November, 1916 :— Killed and died of wounds 28,729 Died of sickness 1,625 [Prisoners 1,472 [Missing 30,678 ! Severely wounded 21,843 Wounded 6,551 Slightly wounded 62,667 Wounded remaining with units... 12,601 166,176 The above casualties, added to those reported in previous months, and including the corrections reported in November, 1916, bring the totals reported in the German official lists since the beginning of the war to : — Killed and died of wounds 889,957 Died of sickness 56,070 214,739 Missing 285,041 Severely wounded 521,203 Wounded 293,170 Slightly wounded 1,453,870 Wounded remaining with, units 207,819

3,921,869 The above figures, (says the London Daily Telegraph) include all German nationalities — Prussians, Bavarians, Saxons, and Wurlembcrgers. They do not include naval casualties or casualties of colonial troops. It should be noted that the above figures do not constitute an estimate by the British authorities, but merely represent the casualties announced in German official lists. It should also be noted that the casualties are those reported during the month of November—not reported a« having been incurred iji November.