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Show ENORMOUS LOSSES OF THE ENTENTE IN PRESENT WAR i BERLIN. Dec. 5. by wireless to Say-(ville. Say-(ville. The total losses of tho entente in j the present war have been 15.100. 000, according ac-cording to figures given out by the Association Asso-ciation for Research" Into the Social Consequences Con-sequences of the War of Copenhagen, as quoted In an Overseas News agency statement state-ment today. "Of this number," says the news agency summary of the report. "Great Britain has lost l.CO.On.i men ; Russia. S,5f0.000; France, 3.700.m0; Italy. $0,'X0 : Serbia, 4SH.0O0 ; Belgium, 2'Jo,'Kl0, and Rumania, 200.000. "These figures admit of curious conclusion. con-clusion. Thus, the losses of Serbia, Belgium Bel-gium and Rumanin are three-quarters of those of the British, and as In the Rumanian Ru-manian losses only those of (he first two months are included, these three small nations have, in f.tct. made sacri rices as large as those of the great British empire. Italy has suffered already losses equal to two-thirds of. the Krit'sh. although she I cnte.'ed the war ten months later ti ian Ureal Britain. T::e Frenoi Ic-ssu-s are three times as great as the British and form almost one-quarter of the total for the whole entente, while the Russian losses are seven times greater than the British, which comprise only 8 per cent of the total, although in them the losses of the Canadians, Australians, Now Zealanders, South Africans, Kast Indians and others are included." |