The Germans are evidently approaching the end of their resources
in men. They have been compelled to call out the 150,000 Landwehr between the ages of 30 and 40, men who are all married, who never expected to serve, and who suffer excep- tionally during a winter campaign. Even with these additions their numbers scarcely keep up, Prince Frederick Charles having with him but 90,000 men, while the force round Paris suffers terribly from the daily losses by disease, invaliding, insufficient food, shelling from the forts, and three days of battle. Excluding the garrisons of Alsace and Lorraine, and the forces employed in siege operations, the armies really maintaining the contest can scarcely muster more than 400,000 men, while the French have nearly twice as many again, who some day may fight like their own marines.
