Nearly half its members were killed or wounded; but astonishingly few women in mourning are to be seen on the street, and none of the men wear those crape arm bands that are so common in Europe ordinarily; nor, except about the railroad station, are very many wounded to be seen.
There are any number of wounded privates in the local hospitals; but there must be a rule against their appearance in public places, for it is only occasionally that I meet one abroad.

Slightly wounded officers are more plentiful.

I judge from this that no such restriction applies to them as applies to the common soldiers.

This hotel is full of them-- young officers mostly, with their heads tied up or their arms in black silk slings, or limping about on canes or crutches.
Until a few days ago the columns of the back pages of the Aix and Cologne papers were black-edged with cards inserted by relatives in memory of officers who had fallen--"For King and Fatherland!" the cards always said.

I counted thirteen of these death notices in one issue of a Cologne paper.