Show I Rumanian War Loss I When we think think of the World War we instinctively think of or the losses of men and property sustain sustained sustained ed by France and Belguim Per Per- Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps haps no one thinks of the part played by little Rumania But Dut consider this While French deaths were IG 16 per cent of troops cn engaged and Belgian deaths were a trifle over C per cent Ru- Ru Rumanian Ru Rumanian manian losses showed the tra tragic ic I and md pitiful total of 45 per cent of fatalities Rumania had under arms men of whom were killed or died of disease while Oa 00 more were wounded making makiM her ner total casualties of dead and wounded a 11 fraction over 60 percent per cent In striking contract is the record of f the United States with only ono one and one half per cent of dead and less than four and one half per percent percent cent ent of wounded the lowest of any nation engaged in the war The total number of United States troops mobilized was WIlS less Jess than 12 per cent of the total en- en enon engaged en on the side o of the allies and of these less than half on-half ever ever reached the battlefields Yet it can not be denied that the timely arrival of the American troops turned tu the tide against the Central Powers and our relatively small force combined with the tre tremendous tre- tre moral effect of our entry into the war was the deciding fac- fac factor factor fac factor tor in the greatest struggle the world has ever seen |