Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-17 | Page 3 | Enormous Losses of Russian Army since 1st of May |

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Date	1915-09-17
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
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Article Title	Enormous Losses of Russian Army since 1st of May
Type	article
Date	1915-09-17
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Page	3
OCR Text	Show ENORMOUS LOSSES OF RUSSIAN ARMY SINCE 1ST OF MAY GENEVA. Sept. 16, via Paris, U:60 a. m. The number of Russians taken prisoner pris-oner since May 1 by the Austrians and Germans it reckoned by I -a Suisse a t 2,671,750, It is slated that 6000 guns and 4000 machine guns' have been eapl tired. The newspaper states that these figures have been compiled from official bulletins issued at Berlin and Vienna. It adds: "The offlclnl Austrian and German figures fig-ures given out prior to May I showed a total of 1,395,000 Russian prisoners not including civilians or the dead and wounded. General Pollvanoff. the Russian Rus-sian minister of war. informtd the duma that the total of officers and men at the from since the beginning of the war was 5.060,000. Consequently the present total of Russian forces Is 1,093,200."
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