9. The figures published An interesting revelation by the Ministry of War as to German casualty lists. concerning the numbers of It is stated by this head men dismissed from lazarets medical officer of Potsdam (hospitals) are based upon that these lists are drawn up unquestionable statistics. from the men _dismissed_ from These statistics remain as lazarets (hospitals), that is given--despite all the to say, this doctor admits aspersions of our enemies. that the custom is now to keep back the casualty lists until the man is _discharged_, whereas your British lists, I am informed on authority, are published as speedily as possible after the soldier is _wounded_. The whole of the German wounded now in hospitals have not yet, therefore, been included in casualty lists--the casualties which are forcing the Germans to employ every kind of labour they can enslave or enroll from Belgium, Poland, France, and now from their own people from sixteen up to sixty years of age of both sexes. 10. It would prove interesting For obvious reasons I to learn the name of the decline to subject my "patriotic German Statesman," friend to the certain who is said to cherish the punishment that would follow same opinions as this writer disclosure of his name. in the _Daily Mail_. I regret to burden readers with a chapter so personal to myself, but I think that anyone who studies these German denials with the preceding chapter on the Contalmaison wounded will learn at least as much about the German mind as he would by studying the famous British White paper of August, 1914. CHAPTER XXIV GERMANY'S HUMAN RESOURCES