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HUMAN LOSSES IN WAR. 5.14 per cent. The ravages of diaks
among the soldiers in the Dardanelles kre evident by the oficial report, showing A DANISH ESTIMATE.
that between April 25th un December 11th, 1915, Dé,0803 wore talian) to A voluntary organisation, known as the bapital; while the dead and wounded War Study Society has been formed at
fammunal to 122,001 This turg per Copenhagen for the purpose of studying centage of sickness, was due to spidseries |
INTIMATIONS
the A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION for
over THREE-QUARTERS of a CENTURY.
the social consequences of the world war of typhis; there were 28,500 cases out WILKINSON'S
The first product of its labours is a vulu for a total of 78,200 between April anch able bulletin issued on August 14, 1910.otober, 1013. The absolute, losses, computing the hamma pases in each including the killed, missing, wounded. belligerent country during the first two und sick, who will not return to thự front. yenra of the conflict. The computations from the beginning of the way to January are muls by a Bourd of Administration: 9th, 2016, in the English Armag is figured
which consists of a chairman and two at 410,742, being 74 per 'beat," of the tutal scientific collaboratory elected from the losses, as reported up to dañary Ork.
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"To procure the Decemary data of forest of wounds. peaualties was a task of no little difficulty..
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BULTENİ NAVY LOSSES.
us in nearly all the warring countries He „The mal of losous la the British Navy; amber of the men lest la cursfully (as reported before the Jutland battle on guarded. Englaal: published her losses May alet, 1916, was 12.400, ot, which in detail up to January, 1916, bas other 10.517 were killed or died of wounds. belligerent nations dechired to give such The losses in the Jutland battle were information to the world. The results of 17, which brings the total lowes of tƉe careful inquiry, based on the besBritial Nagy up to the; usiddle of June,
sources of information at hand, are alumi marine! by the society, as follows
1-DECT LOSSES OF NEMAN LIFE, DERINÁ
TWO TEARS OF WAR,
·
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Sole Manufacturers ! L. T. DAVENPORT, Ltd.,
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Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Taaly .....
Busin
*
Servia Turkey
1916, to 18,757 of whom 16.280 were killed and wounded.
From the preceding #garas-the lower, being based upon official reports and Dead. Wounded. | established averages--the total losses for 718,000 1,770,000; the British Army and Navy in the fir
30,000
110,000:1
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INTIMATIONS
Bulgariagoas
23,000.
England
205,000
80,000 512.0
years are computed at 808,461, of which 34,360 were officers. The absolute losses
France u
Germany
895,000 2.115,000 were, in killed and permanently wounded This 986,500 2,116,300 during the two years. 350,725. 100,000 243,000 total compare wish the Crinwan and Boer 1,198,000 3,220,000, Qu As follows:-"
116,000 110,000
150,000 350,000
#
Killed and TotalArmy died of
Wounds Wounded
Tuta!......4,831,500 11.243,900 Two years,
Ia valids.
present war ... 2,000,000 188.464 512.405 Crimean, war 97,664 4,002 18,289.
"583,000 2our war 9:50,000 5.774 $214,800
LOSSES OF FRANCE,
2,400,000
100,000 33,000 95.000 19,000 717.000 154.300 Only approximata estimates of the 3,000,000 234,000 French lowes can be arrived · at,, sa 9,001,800 694,900 casualty lists are not published, and
350,000 70,500
offcial statements regarding the number 53919,000 1,146,000
of killed?" and woutided are £250,000
not given. 42,000 500,000
105,000, Some. reliable figures, however, are com peted from statistics of certain organise ..15,876,800 3,373,700 tions related to the army.
Dead and
Wounded,
| Austria-Haughey
Belgiure
Bulgaria
England.
Franco
Germany
Italy
Russia.
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Duration
in days.
TH EARLIER WAD.
Desil per
jumbers.
Proportional
230
It is known that from September 15th, to November 20th, 1914, 490,000 wounded were treated at the differrat hospitals,
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total Italian Jones at 25,000 a month. From these reports and others the Italian losses for the Erst fourteen months of the war ara enmputed in follows —
Killed Wounded *Prisoners
105,000
245,000 55,000
LONNER OF SUKSIA, The loss of Risis are computed fron of which 54.5 per cunt. returned to the
estinates, with deductions, from frag hont; only 249 per cent. died; 17permentary reperts. No official figures ar cent. rumained as the hospitals and are available. It is known from hospital eports that during the first six months
the sick of the war
and wounded. and noticial marted to 1,200,000 figures show that during eighteen month of the war the sick and wounded reached
8.7 computed as partissently lo
The French Relief Society officially 783,000 1,075 17.0
17.4 stated that up to June, 1015 (ten paths 0.4 of the war, the killed, wounded, missing
1790-1815,9.000 2100,000
1861-1866 ...
7:0
1859
41
1501
195
45,000 1,100 *9,300 20
1860
10
45,000 1,325
1870-1871 1900-1902
210
17.8 13.9
0.2
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and prisoners of, the Frener aggregated 1,000,000, of whom 2018,000 Kere sick. PATELL & CO.
184,000 875
1,400,000. From other information, and 900 0,800 10
·1904-1905- 548 150,000
4.8 meagre reports, the War Study Society 238 462,000 1,553)
30.3 arrives at the following losses for the two 1914.1916 7:32 4,831,500 6,830 100.0 years of the war
1912-1913
The society takes ap in detail teach TANCA LOSSES IN TWO TEARS OF THE WAR. country as follow-
"
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY!
The computations are based on general casualty losses made public at the begin ning of the war.
Dead......
1!
i
"
Killed Wounded
885,000 2,115,000
Invalided.....................** 614,000
COMPARISON WITH FORMER WARE..
"
1558.........
Killed. Wounded, Total:
2,538 17,004 19,690 1870-1871......138,871 137,826 976,497 1914–1910...........894,000 2,116,000 3,000,000.
DERHANT'S WALL. LOSSEN,
The Russian Government has issued 286 hats of killed. but these official lists were not siwaya available. Based on the most reliable data and reports, the follow ing stimates are arrived at
***
Plesaian losses it first two years of the
Oeges not Men.
Lowes in fighting .... Losses in sick
7,235,000. 1,362,000
Total losses
8.407,000
31ilitary loswe Killed...
5,181,000 1,171,000
Died of wosada .................... 244,000
Died of sickness Wounded
92,000 3,8201000 Prisoners estimafed... 2,000,000 Russian losses in previous wars
Killed and died
of wounds. Wounded.
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24,754 699,800 18,054 Wounded... 43,340. 1,799,800 1,778,940 | They losses of Germany are computed. |
1,150,000 from the casusity liata published by the Prisoners
Minister of War. Up to: July 1st, 1916, Total 68,094 9,425,900 8,844,994 1,022 such lists had been issued, contain. ing 13,178 pages, averaging 262.3 The estimates for the second year of casualties per page, but those included. the war do not include the missing, nor
certain percentages of corrections and Crimean war 72,000 the sick, hence the figures above are coa-
duplications, so the actual bases are Russo Turkish war. 36,000 . --- siderably less than the figures heretofore 6ured at 225.8 per page, which would
Russo-Japanese war 34,000
VALKAN STATEH AND, BELGIUM, given by the countries hostile to Austria-
bring the total published losses from the Hungary..
begizning of the war to the first of Jely the Balkan States and Turkey is procur No official information of the losses of Compared with wars waged by Austria. 1915 (twenty-three months) to 9,975,302. į Hungary in the second half of the last These lists, however, do not indicate the able, but based upon the available data THE OCEAN MARISE INSURANCE KING EDWARD HOTELntury, the following shows the relative time at which the losses were sustained; and reports the following resultere
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but from the reports it is estimated that arrived at by the society:
The war losses of the Balkan States the casualty lists up to the twenty-third mouth of the war only covered the period and Turkey up to August 1st, 1018- 31,400
to May 15th, 1916. Maintaining the 40,298
some average for the six weeks, the fatel
Dead. Wounded. Total
5,400 28,000
10,984 29,304
1914-1916718,000 533,000"1251,000
DAFTAR ANY LOSSES.
·Dind Death
Wounded. Invalids from Approx, finea 25,000 60,000 18,000 (1) 20,000 140,000 42,000 50,000 160,000 350,000 105,000
up to May 16th, 1918 (twenty-one-and-Bulgaria half mouths of the way, would be Servia, Fourteen statements of losses of the 8,012,837; and, according to the above | Tucker British army appeared to January 27th, computations, of these the dead number A 1915, when they ceased, and from these 771,808. 26.3 per cent. seriously wound. Together, 25,000 550,000 165,000... averages the following totals are arrived 94: 417.177 15.2 per cent, alightly No oficial information of the loss of wounded, 1,305,148,47.4 per cent. Belgium procurable, but from the prisonem, 8271148, 11.1 por zant.,
reports, the total losses of the Beigiana 'im
at:
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11-Life & Amity Fende Sluking and Account r
From all the date and average the the frat two years of the war are put at Society estimates that the total German: 217,000, of whom 47,000 are killed, Revenue Fire Branch esses during the first two years of the 180,000 wounded and 40,000 prisoners.
war were as follona Dead's Blightly, wounded
Saverely wounded
Prisoners about:
BAG,500 1,602,900)
513.400 400,000
Kiled and died of wounds 4,905 70 902 Wenaded
9,970 241,083!
As compared with the loses of the 1,561 53,408 Franco-Prussian war
Dead
Tatel"
∙16,400 865,514!
Grand total,.881,963
Wounded
"LOSSES OF
280,000 101,000
TRN AVFALLING TOTAL'S.
ALE iba abavo Agures cover, da stated; the footwo years of the war. At this
Life and Anxsity Brancho-a Ravenna Marine Department Ohber Rácsipta, sissimistarkar
writing (February 1st, 1917), kar months more hase elapsed, or 25 par tent, "of The Accumplative' Funds of the various additional timeThese six months have Branches are segmentals Jorosted, and, by been the bloodiest since the outbreak of Act of Paellement, are set de la mess
the (olaima" under the specstí the war, particularly among the, Frenon, manter of the Company's Buriz Germans, Austrians, Italiane, Raseínas, and Eritish, while a new element has entered to the contest-Rumala, is conservative compulating to order to reach a grand total of Josses up
The Italian Government does not pub liah figures, and resalts can unly be com number of prisoners from the puted from partial reports and averag British army, na reported up to June 1st, The Austrian lepers: Staff of November to January
ermany, Bist, 1015, asserted that six months of the var and cost Italy half, & milion Bulgaria, 449-Lord Newton stated in the House me.The German Koln
1810, were as follows-I
92,000 in Turke, 27 827
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gdres
mited to be in excess of
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