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Show Russia's Casualties During War Estimates Over Nine Million COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21. (By The Associated Press) Russia's war casualties cas-ualties total 9,150,000 men, according,1 to a telegram received hero today from ' Petrograd. Of this number 1,700,000 were killed. The disabled men number 1,450,000 while 3,500.000 other soldiers were wounded. The Russians taken prisoner pris-oner total 2,500,000. Estimates of the Russian casualties in the war made last week by the Russian information bureau director, A. J. Sack, in New York figured the total at "not less than S,000,000 men, of whom 3,000,000 were killed and I about 1,000,000 disabled for life." Figures compiled by the Cologne I Gazette and published November 25 placed the total German casualties at1 more than 6,00,000. Of this number it, was estimated that about 2,000,000 were killed. The French soldiers killed in the! war, according to a statement made ' in the Frenclv chamber of deputies on . December 20 by Lucien Voilin, a Socialist So-cialist deputy, number 1,400,000. Italy lost 500,000 men In killed or died of wounds. A statement to this effect was made in Paris December 21 ! by Saivatore Barzilai, a former member mem-ber of the Italian cabinet, who accom- ! panied King Victor Emmanuel on hisj visit to the French capital. I The British army official losses in killed totald 658,704. |