New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
Germany Has Only Boys Left to Fill
Gaps in Her Ranks-Exhaustion of
Last Reserves Must Come
Before September,
1918
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
Author of "The World War;" ''They Shall Not Pass"

4 few weeks ago ] made an estimate Of
II. uses of the Germans in the first three
Gears of the war, comparing these with
rrs,ch losses. The figures ! was able TO
cot hold of at that time were, as | point
- ont. incomplete and unsatisfactory.
Since that time the French General staff
bss unfinished an official estimate of the
German losses and of the German num-
bsrs Such an estimate may be accepted
,<verv close to the fact, because, as every
cne knows, just as the German sources
=. inflammation as to French losses and
rrench military conditions are reliable,
,bs French estimates are similarly trust
worthy. There is really no mystery so far
., numbers are concerned for any of the
nations at war.
The figures of the French General Staff,
,ubl;shed last week, are as follows. l re-
produce the dispatch in full, because 1t
npst be the basis of all calculations:
French Official Figures
GRAND HEADQUARTERS OF THE
FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 3.
The Associated Press is able to give APP
rroximately the figures representing the
man power of Germany in the war at the
nresent time, together with the casualties,
as follows:
Fixed formations on the various fronts,
enploved on lines Of communication and
stationed in the interior, 5,5O0,OOo.
Divisions undergoing formation and men
in depots. 100000.
Losses in killed, permanently disabled
and prisoners, 100000.
Wounded, under treatment in hospitals,
100000.
Total. 100000.
These figures account for all the men
called out up to the present for service, as
follows:
Trained men, nol.l.zod Immediately on
the outbreal; Of the war, 100000.
Unframed Ersatz Compensatory re-
seryists called out, August, 1914, to Feo-
ruary, 1915, 100000.
Glass of 1914 recruits, called out No
yember, 1914, to January. 1915, 100000.
First ban of unframed Landsturm called
out at the beginning of 1915, 1,1Co,ooo.
Class of 1915, called out May-July, 1913,
$4,000.
Remainder of unframed Landsturm
called out the same month, 10000.
Glass of 1916, called out September-No-
yember, 1915, 100000.
Contingent of hitherto exempted men
called out in October, 1915, 100000.
Second contingent exempted men called
out early in 1916, 100000.
Second ban of Landsturm, called early
IL 1916, 100000.
Class Of 1917, called out March-Novem-
Der, 1916, 100000.
Third contingent of exempted men, called
late in 1916, 100000.
Class of 1918, called out November, 1910
to March, 1917, 100000.
Class of 1919, called out in part in 1917
100000
Additional exempted men, 1917, 15o'ooo
Total, 11,500,O0O.
The discrepancy in the figures Is ac.
counted for by the omission of the mall
units. The total mobilizable male re-
sources of Germany since the beginning
Of hostilities, including the yearly classes
Of recruits up to 1920, number about Ia
100000. Those called up number lo'ooo''
900. The remainder are accounted 1or a.
follows: The remaining portion OF 1h'
class of 1919 awaiting call, 100000; class
Of 1920 still uncalled, 100000; men EN-
rIoyed as indispensable in industries anc
administrations, 100000; men abroad un
able to reach Germany, 100000; men en-
. trely exempted owing to physical DISABLE
i;y, 100000.
Recruits of the 1920 class cannot p'
called legally until they attain their seven
zenith birthday.