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Show HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEAD. When will the story of the world war, with new developments, end? Each day something is added Here 1b an nccount from an English paper of tho work of tracing the soldiers with the British armies who fell with in the lines of the enemy. The "directorate "direc-torate of graves registration and inquiries" in-quiries" has had 350,000 names obtained ob-tained from the German lists of men buried in the balllefleld More than 15,000 were of British soldiers report -led as missing. In making this search. the British government covered S20, i 000 square miles, extending over nine j counties This statement Is made "Although the Germans kept lists of ;iho.ie who wore burled by them on the I battlefield, manv hundrtd of ihcje list.-, were permanently lost in the great German retreat of 1918, or went j astray, and thus in many cases the iecords of the men, who were buried at tho front, were apparently lost, and It became increasingly difficult to , copy out the names of the Eritish contained therein In thlfl way the :-."", lit itl i nann hav i been fp warded to the home authorities Irom the German burial lists alone In case, whore graves lists were Irrevocably Irrevo-cably lost hospital records, the rolls of prison camps, and f similar ins.il tuttoos have been searched, and names ihus found have been traced Irom camp to camp, and hospital to hospital, until in many cases the place ot the man's death has been obtained, pnd definite information lorvarded to the authorities giving the name of the hospital or place of death of a hither-' hither-' to missing man. It has been necessary to search and lo correspond with over 50 German departments in order to obtain all this information ' oo In ancient Greek writings tho first lin was written from eft to right the next right to left, thus saving time in going buclc from the eml of a line to tako up the next. |