The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
HAD LOST MORE
 THAN 15O.OOO MEN

During the second half of November,
 the enemy exhausted, and lost in the bat
 tie of Ypres alone more than 150.oo0 men.
 did not attempt to renew his effort, but
 confined himself to an intermittent can
 nonade. We. on the contrary, achieved
 appreciable progress to the north and
 south of Ypres. and insured definitely,
 by a powerful defense, organization of
 the position, the inviolabllity of our
 front.
 footnote stating that over 10000 Ger
 man corpses were found on the battle field during these three weeks of battle The report next proceeds to summarize the character and results Of the opera tions since the battle of Flanders: that is during the period November 3O- February l. It says that since the former date the French supreme command had not thought it advisable to embark upon im- portant offensive operations. It has con. fined itself to local attacks, the main ob- ject of which was to hold in front of us as large a number of German corps as possible and thus to hinder the with drawal of the troops to our Knowledge
 the German general staff was anxious to dispatch to Russia
 As matter of fact the numbers trans.
 ported to the eastern front have been very moderate.
 Of the 52 army corps which faced us on
 the western front, Germany has only been able to take four and one-half corps for the eastern front. On the other hand, climatic condtions-the rain, mud and 1 mst-were such as to diminish the ef- fectiveness of offensive operations and to add to the costliness of any undertaking which was another reason for postponing them. Still another reason lies in the fact hot from, r,nv m, lao oil fn1 count upon steadily expanding growth. l equally in point of numbers and units as lof material, while the German forces | have attained the maximum of their l power and can only diminish now both | in numbers and in value. These condi- l tions explain the character of the war l fare which the operations have assumed | during the period under review | Meanwhile it is by no means the case l that the siege warfare has had the same results for the Germans as for us From 1 November 15 to February our opponents
 in spite of very numerous attacks did | not succeed in taking anything from us
 except few hundred metres of ground l to the north of Soissons. We, on the contrary. have obtained numerous and | appreciable results.
 | The French writer here proceeds to | strike balance of gains and losses be- l tween the allied and the German forces in France during the winter campaign. l The result he sums up as follows | CD A general progress of our troops, l very marked at certain points.
 | CD A general falling back of the enemy, except to the northeast of Soissons. He 1 continues:
 To complete the balance it must be l added that:
 1 Q) The German offensive in Poland was | checked a month ago.
 @ The Russian offensive continues ir, Galicia and the Carpathians
 l t0 A large part of the Turkish Cauca- | sian army has been annihilated.
 | CD Germany has exhausted her re-
 sources of officers there are now on an average of 12 officers to a regiment). and
 henceforth will only be able to develop