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Show BRITISH LOSSES AT DARDANELLES PLACED AT 87,630 LONDON. Sept. ifi. 3:40 p. m. British casualties t the Dardanelles up to August Au-gust L'i were B7,'6S0. The number of killed In thai time whh 17,608. The,e figures we I e included In the irrand total .f British casualties published earlier in the week. Today's announcement says the number num-ber of officers killed was 1160, and the number of men 16,478; wounded, 2871 of" leers a nil 69,257 men ; mistdns, 878 officers of-ficers and 8021 men. The first specific Information of the price England Is paying for her efforts to win Constantinople is contained In tiles' figures, It has been known t hat the fighting on the fiHlllpoll peninsula wan of 1 1 1 most deadly character, but heretofore official statistics have been lack inc. To tills Iota) must he added the losses BUp-talned BUp-talned by the French, which have not been revealed. The ratio at the Dardanelles has been nearly the same as on nil fronts, or approximately ap-proximately i to 4 1-3 in fBrh instance. He tore the present war. with it.-. scien-lific scien-lific methods of destruction, the proportion propor-tion of killed to wounded was usually calculated cal-culated at about '1 to 10 |