Show I GhASTLY ARRAY OF FIGURES 1 I Statistics of Deaths in Ladysmith I During the Siege I Correspondence Associated Press London April Hhe lat days in Ladysmilh arr described bya l Stand II I I I ard correspondent who gives from ofil clal sources these figures I November 2nd when the investment began we had a garrison o r 7L officers I I and lli02t men On March Isl when I the siege was raised lie garrison was reduced to 100 oilcers and 07CI men leaving r officers and 31G5 men to be accounted for by death and sickness When Gen Bullcr entered the town I I there were In the hospital lf OG officers I 1 and men of whom 70S were suffering j I I from enteric fever 311 from dysentery I and 3S9 from wounds During the four months from Noember 2nd to March 1st no fewer than 1QGG soldiers or nearly 70 per cent of the garrison had been admltioaMnto ulie hospital l to say nothing of civilians and others who had slight attacks of what the doctors I called filth feel or incipient enteric I The admissions for enteric I Olcnlerlc fever were I 177C and for dysentery 1S67 I There died of disease and wounds In the four months COO men of the garrison I garri-son and 10 civilians while on the lowest low-est average 140 deaths will probably be recorded against the patients who remain I re-main raising the total mortality from disease and wounds to 700 among Europeans Eu-ropeans alone The deaths from enteric i en-teric fever up to March 1st was 931 or more than 20 per cent from dysentery 117 or G i per cent and from wounds f 3 I Tto Lhls ghastly array of fijruros must be added IS officers and 103 men killed l In acton 1 olllclers and 160 men killed in assaults lied sorties and storming parties and two officers and 33 men killed by casual bombardments The total of our dead Is therefore not less than 10G3 Nor does the list end here for we have wounded In assaults and sorties 45 officers and 352 men and by casual bombardment 25 officers and I 207 men A siege lee a battle Is usually a catalogue of blunders After the non destruction of the railway came the neglect to secure heaky guns and unlimited un-limited ammunition With the material mate-rial at command Sir George White could not hope to maintain an equal duel with the enemys batteries of four 9pounders and twentynine longrange guns and howitzers The Boers according to the authentic authen-tic record of Sir John Wllloughby who with Dr Jameson lived in absolute seclusion in the center of the town fired lfj600 shells within the perimeter Our expenditure of ammunition did not exceed 47SO rounds Including 3705 fred by field guns In action and assaults Tho two 17 naval guns expended 621 rounds the three 12pounder naval guns 781 rounds and the two oldfash ioned howitzers that did excellent service ser-vice ago fired 77G shells madethirty years |