The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-12-04

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is placed az ljj %. Di thcsr IN 90
were killed On tie hell u battle ~ 80
died Of sickaes- ses4a.ni- u suicide and
20 80 in German prasoiis. while there
died from other caus.-s enough 20 bring
the number up 10 ths gwen aggregate.
The sick and WOUNDED amounted u
AZ ,i2l, the lives q many thousands u
whom were doubles. shortened by their
illness OF injuries.
According to Dr. Roth, a German
authority. the Germans lost during the
war ca. 900 men killed OF rendered invalid
and $60J, 0O0, go in money tnls being
the excess Of expenditure " Of material
losses over the sl.256. 90. 90 paid by
France by way Of indemnity.
DR.. Engel, another distinguished Ger
man statistician, gives the following AZ
the approximate cost of the principal
wars Of the last thirty years: Crimean
war, e. 900 900 600; Italian war OF 1859,
$500, Co0, 900; Pru@o- Danish war Of 1894
$35, 0O0. 600; war OF the rebellion, north
$500, 900. 900, south e .300. cO0, 900
Prusso- Austro war Of 1856, $3.50, 600, 900
Russo Turkish war. $125, 900 900; South
African wars, 3, 10. 600; Afghan war
tl3,2j0, 900; Servo-Bulgarian war, sl76.-
600 900.
All these wars were murderous in tn.
extreme. The Crlmean war, in which
few battles were fought, cost 10. 1Ol
| lives, only SO, 600 less than were killed
or died Of their wounds, north and
south, during the war Of the rebellion
| The figures. it must be remembered. are
German, and might not agree precisely
with American estimates. The Mexican
and Chinese expeditions cost 5000, 00o, Coz
and c., 900 lives.
There were $50, 900 killed and mortally
wounded during the Rus.o-Turkish war
and $1,000 each in the Italian war o.
Austria. In the other wars the loss q
life was relatively less, which did no.
make either the men or money easier t.
part with in the moro limited area
where they occurred.
And this Is but part Of the account
ing, since it does not include the mill
| ions expended during the last INVENT,
| years in maintaining the vast armament
of the European powers, the losses causeC
by the stoppage of commerce and manu-
features, and the continual derangemen
of industries by the abstraction from
useful employment of so many million
of persons held for period of militar,
service extending from three to fv
years-San Francisco Chronicle.