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Show MILLION DIE IN CHINA WAR SHANGHAI, July 6 (UP) The first year of the Chinese-Japanese war has cost more than a million lives. These men and women and chil-.dren, chil-.dren, have perished on far flung fields of battle; in bombed cities; in flooded river valleys; and from disease and famine in the wake of war. Japan has won almost all the battles in this war that began outside out-side Peiping a year ago tomorrow. tomor-row. She now occupies 7 per cent of China's commercial and industrial in-dustrial areas. And yet, according to the consensus con-sensus of qualified foreign observers ob-servers here, she is little nearer to the successful realization of her objectives than she was six months ago. The battlefields on which between be-tween 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 men have been mobilized by both sides spreads out over an area more than half the size of Europe. Foreign military attaches and welfare workers estimated that about 450,000 Chinese soldiers have been killed and 850,000 wounded. Chinese civilian casualties cas-ualties were estimated at 500,000, including 75,000 killed. The same sources estimated that Japanese casualties were more than 300,000, of which roughly 90.000 were killed. Although the Chinese have been driven far. inland and the Japanese Japan-ese are in possession of most of the principal ports of China and i their vast revenues, there is lit-' tie prospect of peace. |
