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Show BERLIN REPORTS RUSSIAN LOSSES Estimates Casualties of Enemy for Year at Least 1,250,-000 1,250,-000 Men. GIGANTIC FIGURES Waves of Russians Mowed Down by German Fire Mountains of Dead. Berlin, Oct. 6. By wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. Casualties among the Russian armies during this year's offensive on the eastern front, according to cautious cau-tious calculations, says the Overseas News Agency, have been at least 1,-250,000 1,-250,000 officers and men. According to conservative calculations, calcula-tions, the news agency adds, Russia during the first two years of tho more lost considerably more man o.uuu.uoo men. Wounded men who returned to the front are not Included in this estimate. Continuing, the Overseas News Agency says: "The prophesy of David Lloyd George, the British secretary of war, that Russia 'will fight until death is now about to be realized literally. The Russian losses in Galicia recently again roached gigantic figures which even this populous country cannot bear. "Russia artillery 'fires indiscriminately indiscrimin-ately among tho troops in order to push them forward and shoots down troops which are retreating. In the battle of Korynitza which was victorious victori-ous for the Germans, Russian columns were driven forward by a curtain of fire. Entire waves of Russians fell under the German artillery and machine ma-chine gun fire. Dead bodies formed in mountains. After the losses sustained sus-tained by the Russian Emperor Guards on tho Stokhod river and In the sanguinary san-guinary engagements at Pustomyty and Korynitza nothing remained of the Emperor's Guards. nn |