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EIGHT MILLION KILLED IN THE WAR In attempting to of man power in the war one confronts dilliriiltifs on the part of the various governments which rcfusu to publish casualty figures One is eventually com ¬ pelled to rely on statements of a more or less con ¬ tradictory character characterGreat Great Britain since the beginning of tlie war has consistently published her casualties Her losses have been smaller than tluise of the other European powers owing to the time required to bring her full strength to boar upon the enemy The Tinted States has also followed the practice of publishing daily losses therefore the figures for Great Britain and the United States as shown in the table below are ollicial ollicialThe The nearest approach to an ollicial statement of s suffered by France during the last four years was given by Andre Tardieu in an address at th Madison Avenue Baptist Church New York City on April 2S 1918 when he stated that the French bat ¬ tle losses including killed wounded and captured totaled 2GOQOUO men of whom about 1300000 were killed outright outrightFrance France suffered tremendously in the early retreat to the Marne and later in the defense of Verdun These and other losses together with those suffered as a result of the German drive during this years campaign undoubtedly increased her total casualties considerably considerablyRussia Russia was one of the greatest mortality sufferers of all the warring powers and the figures as given probably lean toward conservatism conservatismItaly Italy until recently was saved from extreme casu ¬ alties through the confining of open relations to her mountain frontiers The great offensive of Austria along the Piave undoubtedly increased the losses of Italy to an appreciable extent extentBelgium Belgium amt Serbia overrun by the Teutonic pow ¬ ers early ia the war lost heavily but of late their armies have been comparatively inactive Roumania although entering the war late suffered disastrously through German invasions i iAccording According to the German official casualty list published daily until May 10 191i tlie Germans had lost up to that date 2822079 men The daily list was then succeeded by a monthly summary 11111 piled by the British War Otllce from German bulle ¬ tins which gave the total loss up to August 1 1917 sis 4t242 of which 10BU7n were killed or died of wounds and 332C9 were registered as prisoners prisonersIn In October 1917 George Ledeboiir the Germai Socialist leader is reported to have stated diirini a speech in the reichstag that Germany during three years of war had lost iOOOOOO men of which lr000K wen dead Karl Blcibtreu the German military statistician writing in Das Ncnu Kuropa of April 22 191S gives the German losses up to January 1191S as 44G9 1 men His fig ¬ ures deal exclusively with those killed in action or taken prisoner Using the German figures with caution together with the Entente estimates of Germanys heavy losses this year the totals arrived at in the summary may be considered as a fair ap ¬ proximation proximationIn In regard to AustriaHungary the great cam ¬ paigns in the east during the last four years are to b2 considered those having been carried on by large forces in the open over wide stretches of territory Lack of means of communication and hospital facil ¬ ities also have been a factor in increasing the total losses lossesThe The Teutonic casualties in Italy have been largo Their latest offensive JuneJuly 191S resulted in disaster with an estimated casualty list of 150000 men menTurkey Turkey has been a heavy loser waging war on a wide sweep of front from Gallipoli through Syrii Arabia Mesopotamia and Armenia Bulgarias losses have been comparatively small smallThe The figures appended do not include the enormous loss of life among the civilian population of invsidcd countries though such loss was directly attributable to the war Nor do they include losses of life at sea seaLosses Losses among combatants in four years of war warFigures Figures estimated except United States and Great GreatBritain Britain Wounded Total TotalCaptured Captured Casu CasuDead Dead or Missing alties altiesUnited United States x44S7 0752 11239 11239Great Great Britain f434774 979li4 141S9 S SFrance France 1375059 1600279 2975t 2975tRussia Russia 27G2OG4 24fi572 522811 522811Italy Italy liO35 329044 40OO 40OOBelgium Belgium 03250 182898 24 MS MSSerbia Serbia 70484 2151170 3705 3705Rumania Rumania 100000 250000 SIOOOO 447048 0070409 11052955 Germany isi2roo 45 asjo 0382320 AustriaHungary 9043 S 1779317 27iG85 Turkev 182014 370452 5ono Bulgaria 11324 19123 30152 Totals 2J 2JGrand Grand Total 7940830 12810180 20702500 Eighty per cent of the Entente allied wounded return to the armies Germany claims that eighty live ner cent of her wounded return as combatants combatantssTo sTo July 9 191 inclusive inclusivefTo fTo July 1 1118 fortyseven months Current History Magazine for August
