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Show j APPALLING CASUALTIES II At last the Belgians are counting tie 1 frlchtful cost in casualties of their tUft tonfbet -with Germany From var ous VBn sources almost incred ble figures are fgtf supplied A d spatch from Ostend WLtfi says that 40 000 Belgians hare been HH Utilled but this probably means killed Hi and -wounded A report from Holland Wf-J, declares that 50 000 Belgians have been HSWI killed and wounded The entire Belgiaa army d d not con Um 5 b st of more than 00 000 effective men KllIX at the beginning of the war and en Kfl atments could scarcely have exceeded ( 50 000 Accept ng the report of 50 000 Ml killed and wounded as correct we d s HJ cover that already one fifth of the army has been killed or disabled in j three weeks In the two Balkan wars . H the Bulgar ans lost one third of their effective fight ng force of 500 000 men a It is appall ng to contemplate the g casual t es which are occurring among V tho all es m the continuous battle , wh ch began last Fr day and w 11 con t fill t nue with but few mterm ss ons for i perhaps several weeks Before the Jk war ends in rrance the all es will prob R Hi ably have lost the same proport on of ; l men as the Belgians Naturally no astaten ent has beon made to the world l by either Germany or the all es w th B r gard to the nun ber of men under p ar ns but t is safe to assun e that not a Jess than 4 000 000 men will have been B omployed n the operat ons before the i " struggle n the west co nes to a oon f elusion One fifth of th s number i ji . ves s a total casualty 1 st of 200 fr 000 k lied and v, ounded Should the op erat ons cont nue beyond a few n onths more than 5 000 000 men will have gone si uto battle n the western theater of H ar Th s does not take into acco nt the naval battles wh ch a e yet to be j fought It s not go ng beyond the rf bounds of reason to say that the casu W a ty 1 st v 11 be 350 000 without num ber ng the myr a Is who will be k lied and wo nded n the Operat ons between Russia and Ser a on one s de and Ger in any and Austr a on the other The average man must often ask h n self with horror as ho devours the nar news Why are the fight ng? A tr al cause has plunged all Europe into the bloodiest catastrophe s nee the da n of t me Isot a tome n England France Belgium Germany Austr a Kuss a and Ser a but w 11 mourn the death of some strong man vho has been taken a ay from his useful occu pat on and sent to feed the insat able hunger of the var lords for human sac r fice And all because a few monarchs ould riot 1 sten to the reasonable pleas for rcace after the war tever hal once begun to burn |