German accounts of their losses are no longer trustworthy, or
are made upon some principle not yet understood by the rest of the world. Thus it is stated that Prussia has lost during the war, in killed and wounded, 12 generals, 206 staff officers, 2,691 subalterns, 900 ensigns, 5,381 non- commissioned officers, and 53,500 privates, or about 61,000 men in all. As 35,000 men were killed and wounded at Gravelotte, as all the Reserves and all the Landwehr have been summoned, and as the number of Germans in France is decidedly less than it was, this account is imaginary. We doubt whether, in the actual region of battle, reckoning from Chalons to the sea, Germany has 400,000 effective soldiers left. The immense corps d'arnzje have been slowly whittled away, and although, of course, not a third of the losses are losses by death, the gap in the German population will be felt for years.
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