17 JUNE 1916, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON the Eastern Front the Russians are " daily self-surpassed." In the ten days since the advance began one hundred and twenty-one thousand officers and men have been captured. The proportion of prisoners to other casualties is always greater in a precipitate retreat than in warfare like that at Verdun, but we shall be well within the mark if we consider that the killed and wounded have been equal in number to those captured. We may, then, put the total Austrian losses at a quarter of a million, and it would probably be safe to call it three hundred thousand—and this out of a total force of presumably not more than seven hundred thousand men !
