GERMAN WAR SERVICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 4

GERMAN WAR SERVICE.

TEN MILLION PEOPLE EMPLOYED. ; So)!)!' il'uniiti;; I in;.' figures a-; hi the I ifrjj;.'bi.'i- <i)' j, : e)j; ; agui in n.u- ---( I (Vi m,:;;!y u,. f'e ,• h-iore Sir Samuel i'A'nii.->, when the iicaritiiC v.jiv resumed in t iic Prise (.Vuri of ihe r ' :;v -' v. ha.li the Cruwn herni\ ■ I 1 ]h» < :-/iJeuiti;uii.!i ol iO.Jr Scandinavian -•teaiPfr-- and the greater pari of tii. »• < 'a(';.■<>■< on the ground that tlt» COliMhii'il <>l IliOi'e than (10 JUT <:•' lit uf (■u.'it ia ha lid or conditional contrsihnnd hiLcll r!(■ ri jur Im* enemy forces. no, with tli<.' as tn wh< ;h. r pi. s oonJliold.-> or oilfields were in 1,1 ie M'Vvice of ( lie Government . oi- whether they i-tili remained nart of ill civilian population. tin- SulieitorC'onara!. Sir F. K. Smith, resuming his rtpiy to presented on behalf of va riiMis c'aimo nts—American •shippers and Dutch consignees —r,aid h<» bad Jmd placed in his hands an affidavit sv,;;ni by Major Erie Fiizgetnld Dillon, D.5.0., now serving on the Genera! Staff at the War Office. XL t'ld),. — TEN MILLIONS ON WAR SEItVICE. To the best or my knowledge and helie F, tli:' following may he taken as an pfctimatrv approximately correct, and probably an underestimate. oi' ilu; number ol' persons iiow .serving in the German. anuy and under the control of German military £.u -J;oriticr,: (a) r-,;d:r arms on ihe two fronts, in {prri«ous in Belgium, and on • Ijnos i.f communication, 4,000,000. (b) Training in Germany, 7;"j0 ; 000. {(') Casualties, inauuin** constant ' iamporary wastage, "J,000,000. j d) On raihvnyv, n'i of which are used and organised specially for war," i and arc under the control of | military authorities, 000.000., i <e) ><\t Knipp'* arsensds and .Factories i and other arssu.'ds and factories I (. oneerced iji the manufacture of war muni-ions (at a. iovr estimate), 750.0G0. (f) In coal inij.!oi> and factories concerned in t);e making of army hoots a-ad clothing and ether articles necessary for the equipment and provisioning of the army, 2,000.000. It would seem, said counsel, that tiiH grand total was no Jess than 10,000.000 persons. Sir Frederick said that", item (c) referred to any period—months ago, or even to-morrow. The Solicitor-General added that, the population of Germany was sixty-five to seventy .millions, and twenty millions were, and the remainder might be in the last resource, absolutely dependent upon the State for their rations. He argued that it was necessary to take into consideration the wives and children when one was considering the probability of goods which were imported in large quantities being intended for the civilian population, or tho that they were intended for official or Government we.