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Show iJI ESTIMATES of mm WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Members of the military committee who today asked General March, chief of staff. If he had any estimate of the American Ameri-can casualties in the recent lighting were told that the government had absolutely ab-solutely none. General March told the senators and also the Washington correspondents in response to questions, substantially what Secretary Baker said in his statement last night; that General Pershing under difficulties of gathering gather-ing tho names from many hospitals, some of them French over a wide area and that it bad as yet been physically impossible to gather the list. I The official transcript of General March's talk with the correspondents contains this question and answer. "Have you any estimate as to the number of casualties?" "None whatever." One of the senators asked what the extent of casualties already reported to the war department was, and General Gen-eral March replied that it was between 12,000 and 14,000. This is the sum total of all casualties announced to date by the war department as given in the department's weekly published sura-man'. sura-man'. This statement was made tho vehicle ve-hicle of sensational reports, sent out from Washington to the effect that General Pershing had reported to General March that ho estimated at 12,000 the Americap casualties in the recent fighting. Senators who attend tho conference and war department officials generally, general-ly, denounced tho published report as misleading In every way. It was rcit-orated rcit-orated officially and stated specifically by General March that General Pershing Persh-ing had made no estimate. |