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London, Jan. 28.
Mr. Hilaire Belloc, the well-known writer, discussing the German losses, says that, the official figures given by the German Government of losses in casualty lists up to and including those of November 30, but excluding the losses at sea, give @ total of just over 2,500,000. These lists do not include losses from disease, save death from disease. They do not refer upon an average to a later date than the early days of October and certain features in them point to their incompleteness.
For instance, it is found that in the individual liste periodically issued over 600,000 are accounted for as dead, but the official German totals give barely more than 500,000, and the small proportion of wound-compared with dead clearly tes the omission of many light "Again the figures sot down for deaths from disease are manifestly misleading. They can only refer to some particular category, such as deaths in a base hospital or deaths from a particular set of diseases. cause the figures given are actually less than half the death-rate from disease of men of military age in Peace ime.
The number of German prisoners in the hands of the various Allies further proves that the figures for allowing, as one must, a considerable margin for missing who are not prisoners, but deserters or dead.
The total losses of the German Empire alone up to the date in ques: ion, November 30, and not ta the early days in October to which as the latest the German official figures refer, are, upon every bine
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