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Show U. S. CASUALTIES UP TO THE ARMISTICE IS ESTIMATED AT 103,000 Close estimates, made in official quarters indicate that- total casualties In the American army in foreign service ser-vice up to the day hostilities ceased were about $105,(u0. It Is understood thnt there are .about 10.0'ni casualties, detail. of which have not been received, and that there are good reasons why previous pre-vious estimates should be revised. It 'was staled that there has been nothing noth-ing like a ratio of losses in buttle by which totals could be conjectured. It is certain that the last butties In which the Americans were engaged, and especially hone by which Pershing's Persh-ing's forces crossed the upper reaches reach-es of the Meuce, were desperate en-gagmcnts en-gagmcnts in which the American losses were hi avy. Tho right bank of the Meuae was reached by the own of pontoons In tho face, of tremendous artillery fire frou the east uaiik. Tho fii'.Ming i-i sa'd to have been moro intense tlmn that in vvhieli the marines of tho First Division participated par-ticipated in tljo first attack of tin? allies al-lies near Chateau Thi'iry. |