The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-22
 MODERN LOSSES IN BATTLE.
War No Longer so Murderous as it Was
 in Napoleon's Time

War No Longer so Murderous as it Was
 in Napoleon's Time.
 Compare the slaughter in Napoleons campaigns with the worst within living memory-with Gettysburg and Antie- tam in the American Civil war; with Koniggratz, in the -Prussian war. At Jena, in 1906, the Prussian loss was 21,000 out of 8 total of 90O00-that is to say, 10000 casualties out of 195,0OO engaged, or, roughly speaking, one in five. At Eylau, in 1S07 the Russians lost 25,000 men out of 73000; the French 3O.00O out of S5,000-that is, for both sides, the appalling proportion of one in three! At Wagram, in 1909, the Aus trian loss was 25,000 out of 100 000; the French 23.000 out of the same number At Aspern, where Napoleon suffered his first defeat on May 21 and 22, 1909, the carnage was still greater, for the French lost 35,000 men out of 70,000- one-half their number-and the Austri- ans 20,000 out of S0,000 But even this awful butchery pales before that of Borodino in the Moscow campaign, for on that field the French left 50,000 dead and wounded out of 132,0 900 engaged, and the Russians 45000 out of the same number-95, 900 men slain or mutilated out of 26400O!
 Now, the only battle in the latter half of the nineteenth century which can compare with Borodino in slaughter is that of Koniggratz, or sadowa, in 1866, which ended the Austro-Prussian war. | nt,+ of 000 killed or wounded 900 Austrians and | against one In three.
 | The most sanguinary battle in the American Civil war was that of Antie- tam Creek, fought between Mcclellan and Lee on September F, 1862, when, af- ter repeated repulses, the Federals com pelled the Confederates to retreat. Out of 100000 men engaged, 26,469 were left | on the field-the Federal loss being 12,- 469, and that of the Confederates 14000; and that, remember, was before the era of breechloaders At Gettysburg the combined losses were 43,000; but the number of men engaged was nearly double, and the proportion, therefore was not quite so great as at Antietam
 Take, again, Leipzig and Waterloo, and contrast them with Sadowa and Se- dan. At Leipzig the French lost 10000 men out of 160000, and the Allies 42,000 out of 2SS, ,000-102, 900 out of total of S4S, 000-more than double the ratio of Sadowa. Then at Waterloo the losses of the Allies amounted to 22,976 out of l S3 ,000 and those of the French to up- ! ward of 30,000 out of 73,000in other words, one man out of every three that fought that day was either killed or | wounded. Now, at Sedan, under the awful crushing fire of the German guns, the French lost 30,000 out of 150,000 be- fore they surrendered-a far smaller proportion than at Waterloo; while the Germans stated their losses at 3,O22 killed and 59O9 wounded, out of the ,00o brought into action.
 These facts and figures seem to us to prove conclusively that war is no longer so murderous as it was. The alteration in tactics and in the formation of troops attacking has counteracted the superior precision and range of modern firearms. The shell, though it's moral effect is greater is not so destructive as the round shot, grape and canister 'ot the old days playing upon troops ad- vancing in line or column. The maga- zine rifle, incalculably superior in accu- Tracy and penetrating power to the old Brown Bess, is not so deadly in it's eff feet; for, when it fails to kill outright
 the wounds it infiicts with its tiny pro- jectile are not nearly so. ugly and crip- bling as those of the old spherical bull let which smashed, where the other glances off.-Chambers' Journal.