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Show BRITISH CASUALTIES. The total casualties of the British on all fronts during the war were 3,049,991. Of this number 058,665 were killed. The officers slain numbered 37,836, and the men 620,829. The wounded of all ranks numbered 2,032,122; total missing and prisoners, according to $he official statement, were 360,145. Xo estimate has been made of the French losses, aud the German war office has been silent on' the subject. It has been Claimed that 3,000,000 Germans were killed during dur-ing the war, and the estimates from all the armies run as high as 10,000,000 in killed. Our own losses, killed, wounded and prisoners, are believed to be in the vicinity of 100,000, but no definite report re-port has been made by , General Fer-shing.. Fer-shing.. The British suffered enormous losses in the early days of the war in facing the Germans who were advancing on Paris. The Gallipoli adventure also cost, them heavily. They incurred great losses in Mesopotamia, in Palestine and in other parts of Asia, but their losses in South Africa were comparatively few. During the progress of the war, after Gallipoli was abandoned, the drain upon British man-power was constant, and the weekly losses during the last few weeks of the conflict ran from 25,000 to .37,000 men. Presumably the French looses were about on a par with those of the British during the past three years, but, when hostilities first began,, there was a 'great slaughter of French soldiers, who died grimly whispering. whis-pering. ''They shall not pass." Germany can never atone for laying low so many human beings, and, if her punishment should be measured by thf crime, tho whole country would be dev- i astated and the people swept from the face of the earth. |