5 OCTOBER 1918, Page 2

Sir Douglas Haig announced on Wednesday that our armies alone

had captured 123,618 prisoners and fourteen hundred guns in the last two months. The French, Italians, Belgians, and Americans have also taken an equal number, raising the total to a quarter of a million. If we multiply that total by four, we shall not be overestimating the German casualties on the Western Front since July 18th. A loss of a million men in ten weeks, even though many of them will soon fight again, must have a crippling effect even on the German armies, which are not inexhaustible, as some pessimists think