Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-05

There is an additional 1,500,000 to 1000 900 casualties that with some du- plication represent men wounded but returned to the front.
 Germany has now second army of 4, 4,500,000 men but she cannot raise a third 4,500,00o,' for including the re- serves cannot reach to half 4,500,000.
 Those who talk three to five years of indefinite warfare, have to face tue argument of sthe above approximate figures. The length of this European war, is dependent more upon Ger many's man power than upon her fin ance or her food. She could not close the war tomorrow and put her people back into industry without an indebt- edness of thirty billion dollars, or au- value. Then as her man power des- clines the value of her rusting indus trial machinery. like her 5arnae1ed chips declines. Her mark is quoted in nearby countries at 45 cents on the dollar. But as she fights and finances in a circle within herself, regulating wages and values, paying her men with their own paper promises, her grave concern until she comes forth again in the international battle of the commercial world.
 People can live and fight on far power losses are final and irreplac-- Able. Germany has not the men by which to 1engthen her fighting line either in Italy or Russia and as to the people in the inner circle know full we'll that poor food supplies as we'll as Allied diplomacy were at the bottom of the Russian revolut5czn You cannot summon fifteen to twenty million men to arms even in Russs,. without pinching the food supply and it was absolutely necessary that the German stranglehold behind the Rus. sian throne should be thrown off.
 Suffering Russia.
 Bad as the situation now appears on the surface it was worse beneath before the outbreak and it may be just as well narrated here that when the men of Canada were sent to Russia to rebuild the railroad from Petrograd fo the Arctic Ocean, they were by some sinister influence behind the throne, imprisoned and kept in jail for six months.
 But, now the people who have faith in the future of 7D,000, 900 people in Russia in the yeast days of their new
 Although Russia has suffered in the aggregate the heaviest 1osses-four million dead and four million crip pied and in prison -canps-France has had the largest relative loss when to- tal population is considered. Although she "waded in blood' to knock out 800, 900 Huns at Verdun, she has un- der arms more men by one million than when she entered the war. sritain's Reserve Power. The British Empire still holds the reserve power in the war and the Uni- ted States will spend fifty billions long before we approach the present fight ing strength of the Briton. The Bri- tish Empire has swept the seas from pole to pole and belted the earth at the equator. From Scotland to the fee- bound northern pole she guards a waterline of 610 miles day and night SD effectively that no German cruiser has yet passed north of Scotland. From the Persian Gulf she has dredged the river Tigris of far-famed Baby lon for 500 miles. It is like a romance of the Arabian Nights to contemplate the English moving from Egypt a 6 the Suex Canal to Jerusalem in a northern line that may yet meet her forces coming from Bagdad and the East
 The restoration of Palestine ard Babylon. their refertilization and the hatneseing of their water powers are 1 in sight with the dawn of peace a,td the lossening of the Turk strangle- hold on progress and the waters of the Bosphofus. .--.s-e For the United States.
 England has punctured the Zeppelin,