The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-21
FIGURES ABOUT WAR.
Timely Statistics OF Cost, Mortality and
BOoty-Fact Worthy of Pres.
ent Consideration.
From the London Daily Mail.

Those who like to feel their pulses
stirred a the prospect of war must
have been more in their element dur
ing the past twelve months than for
a quarter of a century. International
situations and rumors of war have
been the order Of the day since.
Strangely enough, though almost
everybody talks glihly enough OF war
just now, it is generally agreed that
no one can possibly realize. much less
describe. what the horrors of the next
great war will be like. Perhaps the
statistical method is as effective as any
in an attempt to represent the results
of war.
In the last really great war-that be-
tween France and Germany-France
lost as many as 1856 900 men, of whom
some $4,000 died of wounds received in
battle, $4,000 by sickness, accident. sui
eide, etc, and 10000 in German pris-
ons. A French statistician estimates
that his countrymen who We're wound
ed, but who survived. numbered 1885,
900, those injured on the march or by
accident 11,421, those who recovered
from illness 32S.0OO, making a total of
477,421 direct sufferers The Germans
the field and 2lO23 in the ambuances:
making 1876 in all. The wounded who
survived numbered 1858 men. From
first to last the German field artillery
fired 100000 shots and the infantry 20
100000. The booty Of war consisted of
5,526 fortress guns, 1915 field guns and
rapid-tiring cannon, l07 eagles and
flags, and $4,000 rifles, exclusive of
what was captured at leisure on aban-
dOned fields
The monetary loss suffered by France
was 1866, 49, 522 francs, Including p
$50, Alp, 55S francs for military expenses,
5,7+2 ,9SS,Sl4 francs paid 10 Germany
loans LIST, 327 ,955 francs. losses suffered
10y the state 2,O33, $50, 900 francs, public
works 201 ,2}9,S 500 francs. indomnities
paid by the state to departments 6O4,-
622425 francs, damages borne by the
communes and not reimbursed 10y the
state. i35, ,O07, 900 francs.
Capt. Otto Bcrndt Of the AuStrG- Hun
garian grand general staff published
about year ago figures relating to the
mortality in particular battles between
the French and the Germans. Here
they are: Woerth. S2,110 Germans
against $500 French; German loss, 1O,-
$50, or - pee cent; French loss, 90 100
or ALA per cent Splcern. 3t700 Germans
against 27601 Frcncn; German loss,
$40 or IA per cent; French loss. 1850,
or liS per cent. Colombey- -Neuilly, 81,
200 Germans against S4 200 French Ger
man loss, 1910, or So per cent; French
loss, 3,6i0 or 4 per cent. MARSHA Tour.
$4,000 Germans against llG, 500 French:
German loss, 15,SOO or 2S9 per cent {:
French loss, 1880, or IA per cent.
| GraVelCtte-St. Privat, 1S760O Germans.
| against 1890 French: German loss,
2l.l3O, or ll.3 per cent; French loss.
1920, or 1913 per cent. Sedan, 154 900
| Germans against $4,000 French; Ger
man loss, $500, or 5.5 per cent: French
| loss, $4,000, or 42,2 per cent. The total
/ loss to both sides averaged 1915 per cent
Of the fighting strength. For the seven
| years war the average was 235 per
| cent; for the Napoleonic wars, ~;
| Russo-POlish war. QS3D, 1876 Italian
war US4S-O, 5.5. Austro- Hungarian
war QS4S-9, 49,; Crimean war, 10: Aus
tro-Prussian war Of 1866, l2.
! Turkey, partly from necessity and
! partly from choice. is the most warlike
Of the European nations. Her records
! from the beginning of the century Ia
! the end of 1896 was 81 years Of war
to 60 of peace; Spain with 81 years of
war to 65 Of peace. has second place;
| then comes France with 81 years of
war and 60 of peace; Russia, "a years OF
war and 70 of peace; Italy, 23 years OF
war and 70 of peace: England p years
of war and 70 of peace; Austria Hun
gary, II and 70; the Netherlands, IA
| and 50; Germany exclusive Of Prussia)
l3 and Sc; Prussia, l2 and 81; Sweden
10 and Sc; Portugal, IL and 81, and
| Denmark, 3 and 81. There was peace
for European powers in the periods Of
lSl6-lS lAl-7, 1S79-S1 and 1856 up to the
war between Turkey and Greece
The Captain Berndt To whom allu-
sion has been made above Is authority
for the statement that in the past foul
centuries Austria has waged 63 wars
against foreign foes, % of them agains;
France. In these 22 she fought 81
battles of importance and LOG minor
| engagements. OF the 1873 engagements
Austria won 10 and France ss. The
Italians occupied Austrias attention
in 10 wars. Turkey in wars, and
| Prussia in . wars. All told, the troop!
Of Austria have fought in 1000 en-,
gagements, great and small, in the
last 400 years, an average OF over 4
| per annum