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Show 1ISSI1 TELLS onmuBrs far In Four Years Empire Has Raised 7,500,000 Soldiers, of Whom 500,000 Have Died on Field. TROOPS IN ACTION ON MANY FRONTS Crimes in England for Ten Years Are 2557, While in Land of Kultur They Are 209,667. NEW YORK, A us. 3. Great Britain's con in out ion to tile success of tne allies was made public here today, on the eve ; of the fourth anniversary of the United Kingdom's entrance into war. by the llriiish bureau of information of the British Brit-ish war mission. staggering figures that tell an eloquent siory of sacrifice, heroic determination and accomplishment are revealed by the bureau, which points out that Great Mr i tain and her colonies have raised 7.."i'0,0U0 soldiers, of whom 500,000 have bec-n slain and 2,000,000 are wounded or missing. England herself, it is said, has furnished GO per cent of the fighters and suffered 76 per cent of the casualties. It lias been estimated, the bureau says, that Britain has fought on seventeen fronts during the last four years, including includ-ing Belgium, France, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Russia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Ghina and North, East and West Africa. Munition Output Grows. It is stated that the expenditure of rifle ammunition per week is now sixty-five times gTeater than the average weekly expenditure ex-penditure during the first ten months of the struggle. Machine gun output is t hirty-nine times greater. The ministry of munitions now handles f0.ooo,000 articles ar-ticles a week, and, in addition to more than ninety arsenals,- Great Britain now has fn-i() government controlled factories, all working night and day on munitions and supplies. The British navy has trebled its personnel per-sonnel and doubled the fighting armament arma-ment since entering the conflict. It and the merchant marine has transported overseas 13,000.000 men, 2,0Oi000 horses and mules, 500,000 cannon, gun carriages and other vehicles, 25,00.00 tons of explosives, ex-plosives, 51,000,000 tons of oil and fuei and 130,000,000 tons of food and other stores. Kultur and Savagery. The ill-omened word, "kultur," comes I in for a savage analysis. Professor von Seydon, in the first frenzy of the war, said : "The Germans are the people of the earth. They will accomplish their des-liny, des-liny, which is to rule the world and to guide all other nations for their common happiness." The bureau answers Von Seydon by presenting a table of the worst forms of crime committed in Germany and England En-gland during the ten years, 1SD7-1907, as foilows: Ger- Kn-many Kn-many gland. Murder ",t,d 97 Incest 57 56 Rape 9, 31 21 S Unnatural crimes 841 2no Malicious and felonious .wounding 172,153 1,232 Malicious damage to property prop-erty 25,750 35 Arson 610 2TS Totals 209,667 . 2,557 |