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Show BRITISH LOSE 807,183 . MEN IN 3 MONTHS September Losses Average More Than 3S00 a Day, According to London. j LOXDOX, Sept. ''AL .10:. ',3 a. in. British losses in September were at the rate of more than o-SOO n day. The casualties cas-ualties on all fronts repotted this month were: Officer?. men, 1 J 4.1 1 0. Heaw us wen1 the British losses in September, they were lighter than thoe of Auuf) . whu'li were 1-7. ! i."3, a daily average of 41-7. In July, the i'iit month of the Sninme offensive, the iospes woi"'1 aboi:t ha if those of Auiust or September, notwithstanding the fact That in July the British stormed the first line Herman defenses. The casualties cas-ualties in that month were ijU.ti".", so that the total for I'm' three months ol the Somnm drive :s 307,100. " The Overseas Xews aeney estimates tb ;!t the onibi ned '''reiieb and i ri tlh est in the Somme battle 1 1 j ' ) j-vcmber j-vcmber 13 amounted to about ,vio.:'fMi. Since January 28 the British govern-mcnt govern-mcnt has issued no f iiiui es of lota 1 losses. Up to that time the daily average aver-age of loaves from the bec'mning of war was slightly mure than JOOii, |