Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-01

Vi quarters bookkeeping with Death pouring over maps and jotting down rows of figures, considering every move on his long, crooked battle line, and estimating beforehand just what H viii cost in killed and wounded. From experience he calculate pretty accurately how many men must bo expended for many meters of German trenches for an advance of certain distance, for victory of such and such dimensions All winter he has been busy with these of figures military efficiency expert as well strategist aiming always to gain his object at the least human cost
 And over in London fin a big room in the British headquarters at Whitehall, sits Kitchener the English dictator also figuring but with different method. For Kitchener Is not an efficiency expert interested in saving man here and there. He is a mill ,ary steam roller concerned only with the accomplish. rent of his purpose He deals in totals
 How many hundred thousand men will it cost to drive the Germans across the frontier? Very vet, There are so many already in France Belgium, s, many on the way, so many in England ready for am barkmeut so many with their training yet incomplete At such date we shall have so many men and gun. at such and such paces-and buy the victory for thc price set"
 And a ghastly price it will be- Great Britain i- getting ready 15OOOO new hospital beds and France 100000 That means 75ooOO wounded And since one casualty out of every four mortality means that the commanders expect their spring drive to eos, immediately 25OOOo French and British lives besides those of the 75OOoo who will die later from their wounds.
 Such is the precision of modern scientific warfare Napoleon never bothered with such mathematics. He raised all the soldiers ho needed or all he could ge, then fought his battles without hospital facilities lea, ing the wounded usually to take care of themselves as best they could. He could always get more men.
 But do 100000 allied soldiers equal victory? Jonr, and Kitchener may be wrong about it. but their ez perence has convinced them Of the soundness of thei s'im mathematics. They they can thrust back 'he German invaders. They have proved at Neuv, Chapoe particularly that by concentrating from 1Oor To 5000 guns and masses of troops quickly at one point they can blast gap in Che enemys fortified en tenchments and rush army through Whether they can hold the enemy the when they get through and whether they keep up their momentum taking
 line after line of the ear trenches until they surroun, the Germans or force a reueat-tbat remains to b. cen We are concerned now only with the problem. of human addition and subtraction
 Disheartng as t is to contemplate the sudden los, of 100000 men by army Cuore than 40 times a
 any as the Union army lost in the greatest battle O our civil war and loss almost large on the part the enemy the estimates are less formidable wher compared with the losses already suffered
 It is likely that the fatalities the past eight months reach the stupendous total Of 5OOoOoO to GoooOo Ta Trench have already lost than 100000 in killed wounded and prisoners and the Russians at least 5000 'oo Austra's losses certainly more than GOO ooo Germany has bee uthe heaviest loser of an The prus sian lists alone which are far from complete. gave ove 100000 and altogether Germany must have lost 2oOo coo men or more. Great Britain Belgium and serb, will add about 5OOOOO more