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Show WAR LOSSES COMPARED. Spanish-American and JBorr-Brltish "War Ca. unities Compared. The war department has prepared an instructive statement comparing the mortality figures in the Spanish-American Spanish-American war with those of the first six months of the presen t South African Afri-can war, the purpose being to show that the casualties suffered by the American troops at the time of their occurrence (which were regarded in some quarters as excessive, and were the basis of much criticism,) were actually ac-tually very much less in number proportionately pro-portionately than those suffered by the British army up to date. |