Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-23 | Page 11 | Russian Killed Total 1,700,000

RUSSIAN KILLED TOTAL U0Q,0Q0 Casualties Were Over Nine Million; Three Million Wounded, i COPENHAGEN, Bee. 22. (By the Associated As-sociated Hress) Russia's -war casualties total y,150U0O men, according to a telegram tele-gram received here today from Petrograd. Of this number, 1.700,000 were killed. The disabled men number 1,450,000, while 3,500,000 other soldiers were wounded. wound-ed. The Russians taken prisoner total 2,500,000. Estimates of the Russian casualties in the great war made last week by the Russian information bureau director, A. J. Sack, in New York figured the total at "not less than 8,000,000 men, of which 3.000,000 were killed and about 1,000,000 disabled for life." Figures compiled by the Cologne Gazette Ga-zette and published November 25 placed the total German casualties at more than G, 000.000. Ot this number it was estimated esti-mated that about 2,000,000 were killed. The French soldiers killed In the war, according to a statement made in . the French chamber of deputies on December Decem-ber 20 by Lucian Voilin, a socialist deputy, dep-uty, number 1,400.000. Italy lost 600,000 men in killed or died of wounds. A statement to this effect .was made in Paris December 21 by Sal-vatore Sal-vatore Barzila, a former member of the Italian cabinet, who accompanied King Victor Emmanuel on his visit to the French capital. The British army official losses In killed total 658,704.