WAR COSTS.
GERMANY'S CASUALTIES. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and .Z. Cable Awn. BERHNj May 28. A telegram via Copenhagen states that the final adjustment of the war losses shows : Germans Killed ... 1,677,000 Missing 384,000 Wounded 4,317,000 Prisoners (unreturned) 616,000 Of the 384,000 'Germans reported missing, nine-tenths may be regarded as having been killed. DESTRUCTION IN FRANCE. PARIS, May 18. It is authoritatively eetimated that the material damage done in the French devastated area is as follows: Agricultui-al depreciation, £800,000,000. Damaged and destroyed V buildings ... ... £850,000,000 ' Loss' of' furniture, - £400,000,000 Many villages cannot be rebuilt owing to dangers in the subsoil, from the presence of eplosives and soldiers' bodies. Fifty thousand acres of arable land will never again be tillable. The depreciation due to trench making is £53,000,000 and depreciation in the back areas due to the' overgrowth of weeds, £50,000,000. 'i.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 2 June 1919, Page 3
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