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Show 3iOOD DEMANDED BY GREAT WAR Various estimates have been made of the loss of human life caused by (he war, but the most detailed report comes from the Danish Research com pan of Copenhagen, which places the destruction at fia SftO.AOfl human livec l - ' Of this number 38,250,000 are ercd I'ed to decrease in birth rate and 28. 130,000 to loss due to increase of death rate. The actual losr in killed in war is given as follows Qermany 2,000,000 Austria Hungary t . . 1,500.000 Creat Britain 800.000 ' France 1,400,000 ;Belglum 115,000 Italy 60G",00n 'Bulgaria 65 000 I Rumania 159,000 Servla 690.000 other countries 2,f00,000 'Russia 9,S29.00i It will be noted that Russia's losses were more than were suffered by all Jollier countries combined. The total I Casualties for Russia reach the appal ling total of 35.380,000. which is mor-ihan mor-ihan one third the population ol the I'nitrd States. No wonder the people ' of Russia were so distracted as to ,have yielded to Bolsheisni. It is th-jsrealest th-jsrealest calamity that ever betcll one 'nation During the war a verj big pereent-age pereent-age of the man power of the lighting nations was mobilized Germany .sen. I over one third of its men; Austiia-I Austiia-I Hungary, one-third; France, one-Ithird; one-Ithird; Great Britain, one fifth. Italy. I three tenths. Servia lost one-third of her population. popula-tion. Of the male population called to j the colors, C90.00U died, of the civilian civi-lian population 350,QOn fell vielims-of epidemics, and 250,000 perished in the ibig retreat ol 1915 and 40.000. mostly j women and children.- dted of prlva lions in the mountains in the winter iof 1915 Servia's story is a nightmare ; In Bulgaria, spotted lyphold fever killed 100.000 people. I War, as General Sherman is quoted a.- saying Is hell |