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Capefigue, vol. viii. p. 163. Sully, Mém. vol. iv. pp. 197-199. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 88, 89. Sully, Mém. vol. v. pp. 45-50. Sully, Mém. vol. v. pp. 49-53. Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. pp. 90-92. Saint-Edmé, pp. 222, 223 Capefigue, vol. viii. p. 130. Richelieu, La Mère et le Fils, vol. i. p. 17. Sully, Mém. vol. v. pp. 54, 55. Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds. Hercule de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon.
You have, then, quite 35 for your number in the West, and quite 33 for your number in the East of the Allied forces at the end of the winter; but of your enemy forces you may safely deduct 45-50 might be a truer estimate; and it is remarkable that those who have watched the matter carefully at the front are inclined to set the total enemy losses higher than do the critics working at home.
"I would further point out that our U-boats, inasmuch as concerns the food situation in England, are operating under quite exceptionally favourable conditions; the world's record harvest of 1915 has been followed by the world's worst harvest of 1916, representing a loss of 45-50 million tons of bread and fodder-grain.
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