A million of the injured may go back to the firing line.
But in killed, seriously wounded, missing, and prisoners, Germany must be losing at the rate of 2,000,000 men a year, and the forces of destruction against her will increase rather than diminish.

That she can lose at this rate for three years and have anything left worth consideration as a military power is beyond reason.
Nevertheless, when I spoke with a very prominent American, now in a responsible position abroad, he said: "The Germans have food and supplies, and they have an idea; and the only way to overcome that idea is by their destruction.

The South had no resources for a three-year or four-year war, but it had an institution, an idea, and a determination.

If you will recall it, at the close of the war there were practically no men left in the South.

This war will be over when the fighting men of Germany have been killed off." I have so much respect for the business, mathematical, and scientific mind of Germany, that I cannot believe she will prefer the destruction of the German people, individually or collectively, to the destruction of the German war-machine which set on this war.
I make the following estimate of the casualties--killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners--of the warring powers, omitting Turkey and Japan, up to February 1, 1915:-- German........