GERMAN CASUALTY LISTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16667, 12 April 1916, Page 5

GERMAN CASUALTY LISTS.

FRENCH INVESTIGATIONS. Mr H. Warner Allen,, special representstive of the British press with tho French writing- from Paris on February 81, ■' says: . • * V -i have jreceived _ on unquestionable authority figures which make it at least v legitimate "Ur regard with the gravest sua- *; 'picion all information provided by the ' enemy as,_ to his losses. The French havo often noticed that the total Gorman Josses j in killed,' wounded, miesing, and' prisoners * announced for a given regiment during a 'given considerably less than tho , t. number .of prisoners alone taken from that ' p same regiment during tho same time. The ..,5 result has been that the department specially charged 1 with this task has been ablo again and again to convict the VerlustJisten (official German casualty lists) ql flagrant and deliberate omissions by merely ' comparing them with tho French" lists of prisoners. _ ( > U The following statistics concern four regiments which have been continuously en- ; gaged on the German front:—-The >108 th Regiment of the 12th German Army Corps , lost during a certain period 403 prisoners, * < according to the French official records. The German casualty ilists acknowledged during the same period 259 prisoners, and of these 28 are not included in tho French " • returns. There is a shortage, therefore, of 141- men, or 35.7 per cent, of the total. Tlni 112 th Regiment of the 14th German Army * Corps lost 234 • prisoners, according to tho French; but the German lists acknowledge • only 48, of whom 34 do not figure in tho French records. There is an omission of 186, or 79.4 per cent, in this.case. Tho 144 th Regiment of the ■ 16th Army Cores lost 94 prisoners, of whom only five figure in the German lists, and the other 89/meji,' ■> or 94.6 of the total, are supposed by their 1 misguided countrymen to be still fighting, ■ 1 whereas they are certainly in French handL The 153 rd Regiment of the 4th German Army Corps lost J96 prisoners, but th> Germans officially acknowledged only 53 of these, of whom six are not named' in the French returns. Therefore, 138, or 70.4 per cent., of the 153 rd, have been omitted * % from the German Verlustlisten. *

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