Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 3 | Estimate Total Germans Killed Two Million

ESTIMATE TOTAL GERMANS KILLED TWO MILLION NEW YORK, Dec. 20. When the total German casualties are published, the number of dead will be about two million, mil-lion, according to the Cologne Gazette of November 25, a copy of which has been received here. Up to October 25 the total casualties reported were 6,066,-769, 6,066,-769, of whom more than 4.750,000 were Prussians. The total includes the naval casualties, which were 70,000. comprising compris-ing 25.000 dead, more than 15,000 missing and nearly 29,000 wounded. The Cologne paper uses the word appalling ap-palling in describing the casualties among the officers. The total on October 24 included in-cluded 4 4.700 officers killed, S2.460 officers of-ficers wounded and 13,600 missing, a total to-tal of 140,760. The loss in officers alone, the pamper points out, exceeds the total casualties of Germany In the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war of 1S70, when tho total losses were 129, 60S.