The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-25
KAISER'S LOSS PUT
AT 1900, 900 MEN
British Estimates Lower Than Previous
Ftgures-3, 100000 Germans on
Firing Line.

LONDON. August pa statement
from an authoritative British source on
Germany strength in men and her losses
was made public yesterday.
The statement asserts that about july
81 the Germans had 100000 men on the
western battle front and / 100000 on the
eastern front-a total Of 5000, 900 men on
the actual fighting line-while there were
IL 100000 Austrians opposed to the Rus
slams There were, besides, large num-
Der of German troops Of various classes in
garrisons, notifications and on lines of
communication, in addition to GONZALES
cents, invalids and others.
1t is impossible to say, the statement
declares, how far the reserve troops have
| been armed and equipped, but the fact
THAT the total number Of men on the two
! fronts is only 100000 appears to show
| that this is about the largest number the
/ Germans are able to put fully equipped
into the fighting line.
| The Germans, from a date shortly after
the outbreak of the war, supplied the
losses in their first line and reserve troops
from the second and even the third line,
SO that it is safer to regard all the Ger
man troops in the fighting line as much
of the same quality as in the first few
months of the war.
Il 1t is calculated that the first line troops
lost about 30 per cent in casualties and
the reserves about - per cent, then
, places being taken by recruits from the
j, 1914 class and from other categories and
| reformed units, including the 1915 class
Of recruits.
= Since then they have again lost about .
! per cent in casualties, so probably there
f, remains only about - per cent of the orig
E inal first line troops, to which must b
, added the men slightly wounded who hav
returned to the fighting line.
The German casualties in killed, wound
ed and missing reported to June 30 totale'
/ ,6T7, IA men, of whom BOG, 123 wer
killed, 15.SOS died of disease, and 80, T2'
= either are missing or prisoners, or are 81
= seriously wounded as to put them out O
l action, for the remainder of the war. Sine
i june 30 there has been heavy fighting
70 probably bringing the total loss up to ;,
100000 for the year.
: Assuming that half a million men wer
G only slightly wounded and recovered, tn
c defective loss is assumed to amount to !,
e 100000, i'm addition to which probabl
+ half a million men are wounded who ar
e absent from the front on leave in hospit
J. ais This makes the total net loss for tn
d year 100000, of whom from 100000 t
t. 100000 men were killed.
2 The Germans, it is estimated. at the b.
J. ginning of the war had 100000 me
il available for military service, and tina
u number might be increased by a million c
e a million and half if every man of mil
f tafy age gave his service. The only re;
@ sonable suggestion, therefore for the IA,
< that the Germans have only 100000 me
in the fighting line is that they are unah
a to supply more than that number wit
= Iequiument From the total Of from
\ 100000 to 100000 men must be dcduc
n ed the 100000 net loss for the year al
- the same number of men required f.
. making arms and ammunition.