Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Third of a Century.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915. ALLIED AND ENEMY FORCES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14205, 6 February 1915, Page 4

Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Third of a Century.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915. ALLIED AND ENEMY FORCES.

Some interesting figures have been compiled by a Continental military authority on the forces of the Allies and those of German, Austria and Turkey. Russia, he states, has an estimated population of 140,000,000. The total strength of her available army is estimated as follows:—First lino troops, 4,000,000; second line troops, 0,000,000, making a total of 10,000,000. As probably only half the eventual" available strength was engaged up till November -20th, the losses of the Russians in killed, wound ed and captured Avere estimated at (say 12 per cent) 1,200,000; it was also estimated that, there were engaged in home defences and at bases, etc. (say 23 per cent), 2,000,000, leaving still available, and subject to gradual depletion, 0,800,----000. The total number of men fighting on November 20th was 4,250,000, or 02 per cent of the probable number available. France, Avith a population of 40,----000,000, had an available strength as follows:—First line, 2,100,000; second line, 2,100,000; a total of 4,200,000. Doduct losses in killed, wounded and captured say 19 per cent, 800,000; and engaged in home defence and at bases ctc.,°say 20 per cent, 700,000; leaving still available 2,700,000. The number of lighting men on November 20th was estimated at 1,700,000, or 03 per cent of tho '' probable availables. '' The forces of Great Britain on November 20th were estimated as follows:—Expeditionary Force, 150,000; reinforcements sent forward, 60,0/00; Indians and Territorials, 50,000; total, 200,000. Add colonials, etc., 50,000; Territorials, 80,000; and "Kitchener's Army" in three months, say 300,000, and in four months say 250,000; total 550,000, bringing the total up to 940,000, and making, --with other Territorials, first line troops and reserves a grand total of 1,340,000. Deduct losses in killed, wounded, and .captured, say 80,000 on November 20th, and those engaged in homo defence and at bases, say 400,000, leaving still available in the spring of 1915 a total of 860,000 men. The number of fighting men on November 20th -was estimated at 250,000, equal to 29 per cent, of tho "probables available."

Belgium, with a population of 7,500,-. | 000, had a total strnegth of 250,000, and deducting 200,000 losses in killed, wounded and captured, left available on November 20th 50,000, all' of wnom were fighting men. Servia and Montenegro, with an estimated population of 3,200,000, had a total strength of 300,----000, and deducting,losses of 150,000 in killed, wounded and captured, left 150,----000 still available on November 20th, all of whom were fighting men. Combining tho above figures, tho table gives tho total strength of tho armies of the Allies as 10,000,000. Deduct total loss es to November 20th, in killed, wounded, and captured, 2,430,000, and tho total reserved for homo defences and at bases 3,100,000, leaving a total available and subject to gradual depletion of 10,500,000. The estimated total number of lighting men for the Allies on November 20th was 0,400,000, or 01 polecat of the available number. Germany, with a population of 06,000,000, was estimated to havo a "perfect military organisation" as follows: — First lino troops, 3,500,000; second line troops 3,500,000; total, 7,000,000. Deduct losses to November 20th in killed, wounded and captured, estimated at 2,000,----000, of whom, say, 24 per cent were only temporarily incapacitated, leaving a net total of losses of 1,700,000, and, say, 15 per cent for horn:' defences, bases," to SOO,OOO. This left still availablo on November 20th 4,;>uO,UUiJ, of whom 3,000,000 were fighting on that Austria-Hungary, with a population of 50,000,000, had available forces as follows:—First line, 1,800,000; .second line 3,200,000; total, 5,000,000; deduct losses, say, 30 per cent in killed, wounded and captured 1,500,000, and, say, 20 per cent for home defences, bases, etc., 700,000, leaving still, available on November 20th, 2,800,000. The. number of Austrian fighting men on that date was estimated at 1,700,000 of the "probable availables." Turkey, with a "practical" population of 2,750,000, was estimated to have an available free on November 20th of 300,000.