Absurd German Claims The German propaganda machine has thoroughly adopted the doctrine of Herr Hitler that the bigger the lie the greater the chance of ts being believed. A further proof of this the story emanating from Berlin relative to German allegations concerning their own casualties, and the enormous claims as to the losses of the Allied, "Reliable" quarters, in Berlin are said to allege that German casualties in Flanders amounted to. no more than 10,000 killed and 40,000 wounded. Tt has been said by more than one observer that it, has been the practice of the Germans all along to divide their losses by ten before announcing them, and to multiply their gains by exaelly the same Agure. Application of that rule in this instance gives the Germans killed as 100,000 and wounded 400,000 making a total of 500,000 casualties Which is appreciably close fo. the estimates Which the Allies have published. The German claims as to the number of prisoners taken is equally fantastic. To commence with they assert that they have taken 500,000 Belgians prisoner. It'is known that the whole Belgian army was around that figure, but it is also known that not fall the Belgians surrendered and. that large faumbers of them lave been evacuated together
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