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How great is that need is also brought out by

a statement made in Parliament on Thursday evening. Since the war began the British casualties have been all told up to April 11th 139,347. Up to the end of October we had lost 57,000 killed, wounded, or prisoners and missing. By February 4th the total had gone up to 104,000. In the two mouths sines then we bare lost 35,347. It is difficult to calculate the exact proportion of loss, but we should imagine that it would be fair to say that these losses have been incurred on a force averaging a quarter of a million to three hundred thousand men— less, of course, at the beginning of the war and a great deal more now. Note also that no naval losses are included in these figures.

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