GERMANY’S STUPENDOUS LOSSES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14773, 29 November 1915, Page 5

GERMANY’S STUPENDOUS LOSSES.

ESTIMATED AT 4* MILLIONS. GREYBEARDS AND UNFITS BEING CALLED UP‘ By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received November 20, 9.5 a.m. RAH IS, November 28. Mr Warner Allen, a representative of the British Press with the French At my, lias estimated the German losses to the end of October, 1915, at 41 millions on all fronts, of wham three-millions are dead, prisoners, or permanently disabled. The casualties now total 300,1100 per month, of which number onelliird are able to return to the front. Germany will be compelled to raise tho age limit for military service above fnrty-fhc. Already a secret circular has been issued by the authorities to register men from 49 to 50. The army doctors are now passing ns fit for service men with one eye, the lame, hunchbacks, and sufferers from tuberculosis and heart disease