Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 20 | War Killing is Costly

fJ WAR AR KIL KILLING ING IS COSTLY Take Inter Ton of Cannoa for or Each Life lost For Tor e cr every man killed In battle one Oue ton of at cannon balls Is required Al Although 1 though this was an old theory in the thedas theda's days das of or flintlocks ane and m muzzle loaders rs It is a known tact fact toda today Gen Gen Geri I ohne of or tho the Gorman army has hns proved this to bo be true b by a careful study or of sta of-sta on t the tho o battle battlo of or Klao Chau which preceded tho time siege of or Port Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur during the Russo-Japanese Russo war In this battlo battle tho the Russians killed wore were 1475 officers and men Tho The Ja Japanese Jap Jap- Japanese r I anese loss Joss numbered officers and men The Japanese discharged cannon shots and rifle cartridges cartridges cart cart- ridges while tho the Russian forces fired tired rifle Title cartridges an and cannon cannon cannon can can- non shots Eighteen per pcr cent of or the losses were caused r b by artillery and S 82 S- Sper per cent b by small arms According to General Gen- Gen oral eral It took cannon balls or H cartridges es to kill each Japanese and cannon shots shot oi 01 rifle cartridge cartridges cart cart- ridges ridge to 1 kill each Russian n. Tho cannon can CIUl- non imon balls used b by tho the Japanese had hadan nil au average I weight of or H pounds five ounces ounce and the rUle rifle cartridges discharged dis char charged e l lI by them weighed 16 grains Therefore It appears that about 20 0 pounds rounds of or steel and lead In the form of or cannon halls balls or seven se pounds In Inthe Inthe inthe the form torm of or cartridges were required to kill each e. Russian lost In Tit Bite