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Show GASUflLTY LIST EUR UREARS More Than 16,000 Major Cases Are Still to Be Given Out. i WASFIINGTON. I ce. H. The war department de-partment announced today that Pi.OuO major t'.asua 1 tics, inolud i up; killed in ac- . lion, died "f wounds, died of disease or other causes, severely wounded and miss-iui;, miss-iui;, have not yet been finallv reported to tho next of kin. The ari-earf; in inin-u-ca.'-ua M ies is much la rjr'T. if was a dderl. I'l-'im cable reports iww cMK-c(el the department hopes to clear up the arrears in i na j - a' ca sua 1 1 ies within a week, r -cept for a few names with respect to which ident ifica t ion has not yut been completed. The minor casualties imt v.-t reported to the nest, of kin repre.-eui st.trht wounds iir.olvinc reiativel.v bricl fl is iblenieiit and in most eases the mo.i , sust a i n.iur them a h col v l,a e b.-ou I heale.l. The total in (his elas also in- I eludes many duplications, tho same soldier sol-dier haviue; been ; baldly wounded Iwu or more tinn-s. The . fricial 'tai.-nifiiJ '.-simd to-lay r.hows that of the total niaior lasijallies r-p.. rted by General i Vrshim: on ..-veml-er T. ."ia.'.cjs ba'.o t,c..n lep.nle. to the ;iot ..f kin. wilh Ta.ai ..till in be reported. re-ported. ')f the li.r.G'i missiiiL: :ut pr'son-ers pr'son-ers of war sent in by Gen era 1 I 'erso in p. I 1jV';t ha e V.of-n i eport-d to rein! Ive;-, but of the is:i. t.-;, i wound--i. .niv ell fit! have bee;, deaird up finallv. Tic 'iiatemeitl atlilbutcs tho pro. d" -lav in ;-ei..rt : mr ca sua ! t ie:-- and llo- '..rrnf number - f errors V in. h l:-ve heen fo.J!:,J .-Lmmands. am1 iu' the la! -st f zhGt x i't I |