TERRIBLE AND MOUNTING TOTAL OF GERMAN LOSSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16909, 23 July 1918, Page 5

TERRIBLE AND MOUNTING TOTAL OF GERMAN LOSSES.

600,000 CASUALTIES SINCE FIRST OFFENSIVE BEGAN. Australian and N.li. Cable Association. LONDON. July 21. Colonel Repington, writing in the Morning Post, estimates that during the last four months of the campaign the German losses cannot be less than 600,000. The successive efforts show steadily diminishing results, while the allies' hopes of the future are greater. He attributed Ludendorff's reluctance to attack Amiens or the north, and his avoidance of Rheims, to internal German troubles, while his strategy wag affected by the dread of losing men. He adds that the cheerful British are 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 cool and prudent The Americans are the last army reserve of civilisation. The allies must not open a great offensive till they have established a superiority of force sufficient to ensur® victory. Mr. Philip Gibbs says that the capture of Meteren gives us good observation of the enemy ground. The garrison were living wretchedly in cellars. Our guns pounding above made the place hellish. The Germans are now disillusioned and the men no longer believe in an easy victory.