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Show WAR COST IN HUMAN LIFE Of particular Interest at this time are tho records of killed aud woun ded In tho last European wars "little "lit-tle squubbles In tho Balkans" thoy aro sometimes described. Professor Octavo Laurent has summed up these losses of human llfo In tho account of his eleven months experience as a surgeon with tho Bulgarian troops, which has Just been published In Pari?. Ho writes for his surgical colleagues, not to produce a sensation. sensa-tion. Bulgaria, with 4,300,000 inhabitants put 300,000 soldiers In tho flold. Of these, C3.000 wero wounded and 30,-000 30,-000 killed In the first war and 1G.-000 killed and 02,000 wounded In tho second. sec-ond. Altogether 130,000 killed and wounded one-third ot tho effectlvo force of tho army and 3 per cent of the population. There was cno death out of overy four Injuries, a vo.-y high figure. In the Inst Balkan wnr 130,000 men on both sides wero killed or wounded oil tho flold In a single month, nighty thousand of theso fell on tlm banks of tho Dregnalltzn In tho six days from tho 30th of June to tin 3th of July, 1913. Professor Laurent quotes nn ntith orltativo prophecy to tin pITost that h zero added to theso flgurcn would give tho losses In a European war which would lino up jivo tmnlei ol tho great powors. Thero would bo not less than 1,500,000 wounded and killed In a mcjiih onco the forces wero fully In tho flold, 'Tho flgureu may bo an oanggoratlon, but t'-ov como approved by a professional o Ver$ who has Just had tho latest possible pos-sible oxperlenco. |