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Show oo THE LOSSES. . Salt Lake Tribune. Official figures and estimates of losses afford some interesting comparisons. com-parisons. Harold J. Tennant. parliamentary parlia-mentary under secretary of war, announced an-nounced in the house of commons that, according to the Berlin casualty lists, Germany's losses totaled to date 2,535,786. Of this number 5SS.986 were killed, 1,566,549 were wounded and 356,153 were taken prisoners. In addition 24,080 Germans have died from various causes. Austria's losses must be as heavy as those of Germany. If Austria has not had as many killed and wounded she certainly has sustained a heavier loss in prisoners. In the first Russian advance ad-vance 130,000 Austrians were captured captur-ed and perhaps 60,000 were taken at Przemysl, not counting civilians It is said that in the Russians' retreat they took along with them 2,000,000 Austro-Hungarians of all ages. They also swept their own country of Poland Po-land clean of able-bodied men. Thus we se that the central powers pow-ers have lost considerably more than 5,000,000 men, and this does not take into account the losses of the Turks and Bulgars. What the allies have lost is a mystery. mys-tery. France has given absolutely no figures. Italy has just announced a total loss of 131,000. In view of the fact that Italy can raise an army of 3,000,000, fairly well trained, this los3 Is considerable as compared with the German loss. The English have suffered suf-fered a loss of not more than 700,000 France probably has lost 2,000,000 and Russian 3,000,000, not counting prisoners. prison-ers. The losses of tho principal allies, therefore, must be more than 6,000,000, and to this must be added perhaps 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 Russian prisoners. oo |