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Show I THE DEAD NUMBER MILLIONS What an awful picture is given us by the figures of the deaths in the world war Ten European nations lo8t, according to a statistical research b a society of experts, 35,320,000 The losses are divided as follows: Those who fell in battle or died in camps, 9,819,000 Those who were devitalized and suffered death, 5,301,000. Loss in birth rate. 20.200,000. .Marching eight abreast, the men killed on the battlefields or who died of disease, would make a column reaching three times across the American continent Marching down Washington avenue, filling the street from curb to curb and keeping up a constant tramp, lay and night, this army of the dead would be three months m passing. pass-ing. What a distressing sight it would be to see 9,800,000 men of physical fitness, the best blood of the world, fed into a fiery fifr-uace fifr-uace And that is exactly what took place m ihe murderous assaults between August 1, 1014, and No ember 11 1917. Then to the horrors of the battlefield must be added deaths at home, totaling ." .301 ,il()(i or nearly as many men, women and children as live in the great eitj Of New York. On top of this, 20,000,(100 souls were denied the right of birth With 'Ins lesson in the frightful cost of war, the people of the world should turn from the rivers of blood, resolved never to allov another reign ol the god of hate a |