If ite a long way to Tipperary it is also a long business to count up to a million in killed, wounded and prisoners. For several weeks past the "Ostaxiatischer Lloyd" has seldom allowed a day to go by without recording enormous captures of men and material. Yet the total casualties of the Allies, even according to the roseate estimates of our hopeful contemporary are still below the half million. For ouriosity's sake we have gone back over the German telegrams since the war began, and the following table shows the result. Apparently, as will be seen later, the " Ortasiatischer Lloyd" got impatient with the process of counting by tens and hundreds, and jumped to grand aggregates, But first let us take the table:—-
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