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Show 0. S. MAMS REPORTED LIEUT Total American Dead in Russia to Date Are kess Than 100. ARCHANGEL, Thursday, Marcn 13. (By the Associated Press.) Compared with the losses inflicted upon tho enemy, the allied casualties in the fighting along the A'a ga river since February 2'i have been extremely light. It Is estimated that the Bolshevik! havo lost at least 500 killed. The American casualties from February L'S to March inclusive, were tive killer on the Yaga front and ton on the Dvina. front. No o f fi ce r s w p re killed. O n e American soldier is missing and twp officers offi-cers and thirty men were wounded. The total American casualties to date in north Russia follow : Killed in act ion : Of ncers, 4 ; mon. 71. I'ted of wounds: Officers, 1 ; men, IS. Missing: Men, 36. Died of disease: Officers, 2; men, 67. Wounded: Officers, 11; men, 2ft. The heall h of the r pedl tiona ry forces I since the Spanish Influenza epidemic in ' September and October has bt.r-n ex''d- Wit. Of the siyty-nino death; from dis-enj-e. &ity-tbrt;e occurred before January Janu-ary 4. Throughout fhe fighting the Amer ican troops have generally ben greatly outnumbered. but the losses inflicted upon the enemy havo been at least five times those suffered by the Americans. As the newly mobilized Russian troops are becoming be-coming trained, they are gradually relieving re-lieving the strain to which the American, British and French forces were put in the early days of the campaign. Ah American troopa are now enlovlng regular regu-lar rest periods-, either at Archangel xr at convenient villages behind tho lines- |