The Revolution in the Armies
All the same, the proportion of daily losses per division is nearly the same as with us. We were told the number of killed and wounded daily during the recent months for all the divisions of the 6th Corps, which occupied what is supposed to be a "calm" sector; these totals are pretty much the same as those of a Belgian division for the same period. Their proportion of losses by infantry fire is rather more than ours.
It was easy to observe, on the other hand, that the enemy positions were much more strongly fortified than those of the Russians. Officers having visited different parts of the front, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, told us that it is the same thing everywhere. It is not that the Russians have fewer men to carry on their trench construction. On the contrary, they have just now an enormous numerical superiority. The number of the divisions on the battle front on June 1st was five to three, but allowing that the Russian divisions have much greater effectives than the German, Austrian, Turk, or Bulgarian divisions, the number
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