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Show RUSSIAN LOSS DURING YEAR" OETWEGN 40000 AND MOOO KILLED IN BATTLC. Fifty TheuHnd In Heeeltal. but the War OlfKe CeneWera the Shewing Made aa atltfylng Th ctmclnl retnrna for the flrtt year nf the war not Including tb Port Arthur ttatlatlca ahow that 1M IN of fleer and men peaaed throMRh the hftapltala atilna north of which num Iter 1,710 officer were wounded anil 1 Mi were alrk U mo men wero wounded and 7t51l alck, 007 ub eequently died In hoepltal, 6 711 wmindeit and II ill alck were Inva tided 9 419 returned to lliiatla and II.WI are atlll In hoepltala Over 77. 000 therefore premimnbly returned to the ranka Tbeae lliriirea do not In rlnde Ihe number of thmwi kllleil on Ihe field of balttle nor prolMbly tboao tlkhtly Injured who remalneil tem eorarlly In Held hnapllala The abowlni la conalriered remark ible The proportion dylnie In boeplt ate la very low Ihe total kMa to the active army In wounded and alck lie-Inff lie-Inff a Utile over BOOon of whom al noet half have atlll n chance of returning; re-turning; to ihe rank The other half will lie Invalided or returned to lliiuln. The kllleil In battle nre eM muted lo have numbered between 10 000 and W.000 |