THE ENEMY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2872, 16 February 1916, Page 1

THE ENEMY.

GERMANY'S LOSS US. SWISS EXL'EKTS VIEW. the. German ChaiiceJJor'f, ; KLUloinciil m t iio .l{eich.->lag iJiat 1.110 j IVroneli lo.sse,-, have hiiiUerio Ijoimi j giv-iiler, both relaliveJy and a.b.soluto- ! ly, lJui.ii those of Dm! Ge.rman.s, L'oloj nol Heyler, in the -Journal do liciii'vc, mentions I In; case,-, ol luo Bavarian j army corps, the 12th and Ujo J.-Jth, wliioh .since tlh! of llio war havt' lo.'jl. respectively 88 per cent. a.u<] DO per colli', of I ho:J- ollt:ct-iv«'.s. II" points mil. thai, a.s the French occupy o(K) UiNiini'lin-s of front a.nd lln* Gwliians f.j(X), il would In- IKJCC.ssary I'luil., for olio German toldiior fcdJ'kiy oil tiiio \v<'.stern frond, Ilin'o Fivnclinien nJioiiKl bo put out of action, it» on.lor to presi'-rvv ovv'ii an (iciua.l i-l.v of loss. Or, I'xtoinlrny liliis obwrvalion Ui sill the iroii.tb, it \wMild Ik , iio-rot-a ry tlint Goi'iuali lossen tlir<jiigliont l.liti v'auipaigii in I'ulaud, dnriliy flu' 'Ifsix'iaU- l.ial'Uc <>n. tliv Dvina, said ,■!> l.lio LiliJinipiiJiin; and Arlois—w hi'iv :!O,OI)(J pri.sonci-.> Hfi-o k'J't, in Hi'. 1 luukl.s ol tin , Krriuli and thai, .in hliorl, all \.\u-. (U'lina n josses liK'iinvil at in.; luvii'dh ol Uio Hiu.siaii>, j'lciu'ii, Hniioli, iji ly-aus, anil nunixi i»o inu Ui.ini.s i.nh'iior lo tJiusD iiiciinrcd b.v t-iio i'jciuji on Uh'.r pail ol iuo WfoLorn lioii-t auu in UaliH'oi , ' ""d i n>. 'I UliaiHX>lli>r s argiinicnt.s, i-ays Coloni'l i'(>yi<;r, arc Hiow (Jl <U.'.'speraHoii. UoJonol iMyjL'j- points out usefully tlia.t in t''i-iUi(:o tin: older cLaw*c.-. ol men liavu not Ik'oJl uslmJ a>t tJio Ij'ojh. to aaiytliing like tin.' .vuuc oxßuit as in Germany, ltcckonuiy tin: niikuuy (.■lf(M;tne.s ol Germany sit the bctjmnjig of llio \\i\f a.L /,/.jU,UUU occupation of "■ l'»'onL of 10UU kiiomotix's nould at llic l'a.t-e ok 2.jOU iu«a per kilometre, half of this total, of 18 pur cent. On Uw other lnu\id, tile Fivneh front of SUU kilometres would absorb, under the bwme coDiUtioiiH, J.,'J.SU,UUU men, vv only 3U per cent, of the four and a quarter million French effectives. According u> a letter found un an Austrian otlicor killed in the ligliting oil bh« lsonzo, Austria ha.s lost 7U.1K.Hl inon. oil the isaiiKo line .viuce tJie nuddle of October, without counting those slightly wounded, invalided, or taken prisoners. The Austrian losaey on the Ciirso and on the Alps cannot I'tiJl far short of tllio sumo iiyu,re. Three regiments of Tyrolean Jagors and two Hungarian i-eginiiMiils liuve been' almost anuihila.tcd.