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Show BRITISH LOSS I IS ENORMOUS I Casualties Average 3,800 Daily During Month of Sep-tember Sep-tember Total 1 1 9,549. London, Sept. 30, 10:10 a. m. Brit-ish Brit-ish losses in September were at the rate of more than 3,800 a day. The casualties on all fronts reported In IH this month were: Officers, 5,439; men, Heavy as were the British losses in September, they were lighter than IH those of August which were 127,945, a dally average of 4,127. In July the first month of the Somme offensive, the losses were about half those of Auugust or September, notwithstand-Ing notwithstand-Ing tho Tact that in July the British stormed the first line German de-fenses. de-fenses. The casualties in that month were 59,175 so that the total for the three months of the Somme drive Is 307,169. The Overseas News. Agency esti- fl mated that the combined French, and fl British losses in the Somme battle up IH to September 15 amounted to about 500.000. Since January 28 the British govern- IH ment government has Issued no fig- ures of total losses Up to that time IH the daily average of losses from the t beginning of the war was slightly IH more than 1.000. |