["SOLDIERS BECOMING RARE."]
An official communication issued by the French War Office said:
"The following are extracts from a letter found on a German prisoner, dated Dusseldorf, Oct. 4:
"'With us officers and soldiers are becoming rare. We have no more men than are adequate. Volunteers and men of the Landwehr are all we have to-day. If you saw these soldiers you would turn your head.
"'Everybody is being taken. It is Germany's last hope. All the aged men are becoming soldiers.
"'Have you bread? Many complain they have none.'"
[985 SHELLS KILL 2 HORSES.]
The Paris La Liberte's war correspondent says 60 per cent. of the German shells fail to explode; 985 shells fell on a single battery, killing only two horses.
The extent of invisible fighting in the war is shown by the revelation of an artilleryman now resting with his regiment. He entered the battle line at the beginning of the war and after ten weeks of continuous fighting has not seen a single German.