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Show LOSSES DOWN TO MINIMUM Warfare Mortality Statiotlcs Should Give Comfort to Those With Loved Ones at the Front. Cleat ns the danger and large ns Ihe losses In Ihe aggregate, Ihe Individual Indi-vidual soldier has pleiily of chances of coming i j I j I of Ihe war iinscalhed, or at least mil badly Injured. Ihised on Ihe morlalll.v .sliillslles of Ihe allied armies, a soldier's chances are ns follows: Twenty nine- chances of coming home (n one chalice of being killed. I'orfy-nlne chances of recovering from wounds lo one chance of dying from llcm. One chance In ."DO of losing a limb. Will live live years lon;;er because of physical training, is freer from disease dis-ease in Ihe army than ill civil life, and has boiler medical care at the I front than at home. In other wars from 10 lo 1.1 men died from disease lo one from bullets; in Ibis war one man dies from disease dis-ease lo every ten from hiillels. f or I hose of our fighting men w ho do nol escape sea 1 bless, tin? govern-ment govern-ment under the soldier arid sailor insurance in-surance law gives protection to the wounded aiMl their dependents and to the families and dependents of those who make Hie supreme sacrifice for their country. |