New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-23
THE GERMAN EMPIRE.

WHAT 1870 DID FOR GERMANY-TUE CONQUERED
ARMIES, TERRITORY. AND RAILRoADS-iIOW
THE new EMPIRE Is COMPOsED-rIlE TX
PECTED CORONATION OF THE EMPEhOh VI
LIAM.
(PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
FRANI,FoRT- Jan. H.--The new
years balance of war; debit aud credit has been par
TALLY completed by the Prussan Siddtsanseger in very
interesting figures Up TO the close OF September the
credit side OF the German war account showed 80"
officers and 1890 men, unwounded prisoners 200 guns
and SO ges which number Was increased IN th' oilnS
Of October and November TO l0O5l officers 3o3s2 IN
wounded soldiers 43O guns, among them 100 mitrail
lcuses and li2 eagles Beside these there must be in
cudcd the prisoners made during the battles on the
Loire the battle near men and the fan OF The iore'Ses
Dedcnhofcn, Pfalsburg and Montmedy; the number OF
prisoners in Germany being now estimated in round
numbers at OJo The booty in vehicles fire and hand
arms, muniOn, gained in the various iortrcs'cS ana
on the battlclcds IS immense. At Sedan $50 munton
wagons 81 afettes. 100 fOreplrts Of gncarrages
35j train wagons q field smes, $1,000 rifles, 1880 cav
airy sabcrs, 90og) infantry cartridges, 10000 cannon
balls 5000 bombs, grcnadcs grapcshot cartridges fell
into the hands Of the Germans at Metz were found lfOO
lafctes 1900 forepars Of g1ucarragcs, 1000 wagons,
100000 rifles, $50 tns Of powder; at Sclettstadt 100
lafctes 5000 rifles ESQ uns Of powder These figures
may give some idea Of the amount Of booty made
during the whole campaign The value Of this to Ger
many is however very little, since Of the guns and m-
milton the greater part il Of no use to the German art
Iery and only valuable for rcmetng. The loss to the
French al the greater In the annual report sent into the
Corps L6gatif In 1861 the armament Of France, the
arms on hand were given at 100 rhed heldguns, and
with the smoobores hand g ZOO, and thowitzers Of
various cabers 500 mtaicucs and about COO mortars
altogether some 1900 whether these were all on hand
or where III trbuted not said The French loss on guns
alone has been estimated by German writer at nearly
% 100000 francs The total French loss OF men Is eSt-
mated by Julius Won Wickcde ut j00.OJ0-l50OW Deihg
killed wounded or unable 10 ido duty. These figures
are IL anything, placed too low. The total German
losses I'm killed. wounded Sick and those who have deH
OF disease are not 100000 men, As those that die
from disease are not entered in the official lists OF the
dead il is impossb say how many men the war has
actually cost That disease carries of more than the
bullet IA fact proved In all previous wars. But the loss
that Germany has to bear is infinitely smaller thah
would have been the case had France invaded Germany
When Prussia invaded Austria in 1866 the result was that
those dsricts which the armies passed through, or
stayed n by disease alone mostly cholera 100000 OF
the populations and loss, but cOrrespondngy greater
ia now to be recorded in France the figures of which
will sartle the world when published.
RAILROADS AND OCCUPIED TERRITORY.
Dr. Petermann OF GOtha has just published an inter
estng survey Of the extent Of territory now occupied by
the Germans in France and the population now under
German military government