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Show !LI)SSES IN WAR ARE TEN MILLION Russia Greatest Sufferer, With Over Three Million Men Out of Service. WASHINGTON. MARCH 11. More than than million men arc recorded record-ed as killed, wounded, captured or missing in the Europenn war in the first complete tubulation of official reports of the various belligerents, received re-ceived here. Among the military proper. 4.441.20Q are reported dead, 2,598,500 wounded and 2,564. T.OO captured ami missinp. AmonK civilians, especially on the Uus slan and Balkan fronts and in Armenia Ar-menia another 400.000 arc figured as either dead or wounded through the war. These figures the- admittedly approximate and in some instances, necessarily several weeks old. They are not called exact in any sense, but are known to be so nearly so as to give a fairly reliable picture of thn wars result They depend for their accuracy, first, on the official reports of the various belligerents, which are certainly minimum figures, and then on a careful rechecking with all available avail-able authentic information The entente's losses are given at 6,318,-100, as against 3.384.S00 for the central empires. One reason for the great discrepancy between the two i believed to be the relative unpre-paredness unpre-paredness of the entente, the disastrous disas-trous retreats in Frnnco at the beginning be-ginning of the war in Russia from the Mazurian lakes and the Carpathians and in Rumania. The entente's dead total 2,890,400, against 1,550,800 for the central empires, em-pires, the entente's wounded total 1,076.500. against ft22.0(iu for their enemies, and their captured and miss-inir miss-inir 1.652.500. acainst 912.000 for the central empires. These losses arc bused upon the assumption thai ir I Germany 90 per cent of the total vsounded return to the front and Xi 'per cent in all the othei countries. Russia Heaviest Loser. Russia is infinitely the heaviest , loser v so far, with a grand total ol i 3.084.200 men. The bulk of these ! losses occurred in the Mazurian lake 'disaster and the two retreats from the Carpathians, when prisoners were taken by the tens of thousands. More over, lack of communication and hospital hos-pital facilities has made the death rate in Russia extraordinarily high Their dead total 1 .".uii.uOn, their wounded 7v.2nn and tloir prisoners and missing 800,000, which is said to be much lower than the probable num. , ber France has suffered the serond high-, high-, est casualties, with a total of 1,810,-miii, 1,810,-miii, largely because of the early re-! re-! treat to the Mnrne and the terrific , losses in the defense of Verdun. Her dead total 870,000. her wounded 640,-S00 640,-S00 and her missing and captured 100,000 through this last figure is he lieved to be improbably high. England's total fails far below, being about one-third of France's and one-sixth one-sixth of Russia's owing, of course, to her later sending of a continental army. From now on, however, her losses are expected to keep fairly close to those of the French, who have seriously felt the drain on man power England's total comes to 515,400, with 205,400 dead. 102,500 wounded and L07,600 captured and missing. Rumania, though entering the war onlv last summer, has lost half a million mil-lion men through her fatal attempt to cross into Transylvania, when the cen ftral powers were outflanking ber through the Dobrudja. Her dead are siven as 100,000, her wounded as 150,. 000 and her captured and missing about 25(,Oijo Italy has been saved from extreme casualties through the impossibility of open operations on her mountainous frontiers. Her total reaches 209.000 including 105,000 dead, 49,000 wounded wound-ed and 55,000 captured and missing. Belgium and Serbia. Belgium and Serbia, the two small states overrun bj the German machine after desperate resistance, have both lost very heavilv in proportion to population. pop-ulation. Belgium's casualties come to 112,000. with 50.000 dead. 22,000 wound-edand wound-edand 40,000 captured and missing. oerbia's aad come to 50,000 her wounded to 2S.000. making a total of 88.000, with the number of missing and captured large but unknown Germany, among the central empires, em-pires, is given as by far the largest loser, her total casualties being 1 585 -200. or 225.000 less than France's. Her dead come to 893,260 and her captured and missing 245,000, proportionate, the lowest of the nations. Germany because of fighting on interior lineV without having suered a bloodv n i, and with a highly efficient. " medical -erice. has lost eery few in captured and wounded, but her offensive hag led her into heavy losses in dead. Nparly on-Lhird of her losses are estimate, i,"', have been suffered around Verdun. Austria's Losses. Austria-Hungary is onlv slightly less heavier a loser that German v. with a total of 1,49.100. Her dead, how-... only number captured and missing run up to 591,0011, owing to the heavy loss, es of prisoners in ihe two retreats before be-fore the Russians Turkey also has been a heavy loser, having a wide sweep of from Gal-lipoli Gal-lipoli throuch Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia Mesopot-amia and Armenia with serious pressure pres-sure from British. Russian and native armies. Her total is given as 307-000, 307-000, with 127,000 dead 110,000 wounded wound-ed and 70,000 captured and missing. Bulgaria is the smallest loser, with the meager total of 20,500, largely because be-cause the Serbian campaign was won merely by the threat of her entrance into the war Her dead total 7500, her wounded 7.000 and her captured and missing 6,000. |