Show XED I BATTLE i Percanbge of Ofcer Lost Is Strikingly Strik-ingly Large I t WnhingtnSept 7Tbe official records I rec-ords of the war department as complete com-plete show that there were 33 officers jf tind 21 enlisted men of the army 264 in t aU kie in battle durIng the war with i Spain These casualties include all the lIves lost by the army in the battles r 1n the Philippines as well as those In Cba and Porto Rico The percentage of officers killed is strikingly large and Is sad to be unprecedented un-precedented in the battles of the worldS world-S The contrast is especially striking inS in-S the case of the battle of Omdurma here although the loss of life was f heavy the list of killed included only one officer of the BrItish army Army Promotion L Washington Sept 7The president has made the following promotions fo distinguished services at santIago Tot To-t be major generals of volunteers Brig adler General William Ludlow and Brigadier General S S Sumner To be r < brigadier generals Colonel Richard E r i Combs Fifth infantry and Lieutenant I Colonel Joseph T Hakel Seventeenth t infant |