"SOLDIERS BECOMING RARE."
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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.'"