The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-16
FIGURES ABOUT WARS.
Timely Statistics of Cost, Mortality
and Booty.
From the London Daily Mail.

ana Booty.
From the London Daily Mail.
Those who like to feel their pulses stirred
at the prospect of war must have been
more in their element during the past
twelve months than for quarter of
century. International situations and ru-
mors Of war have been the order of the
day since.
Strangely enough though almost every
body talks glibly enough of war Just now
it is generally agreed that no one can pos
sibly realize much less describe, what the
horrors of the next great war will be like.
Perhaps the statistical method is as If
fective any in an attempt TO represent
the results of war. ta,t
In the last really great war-that be-
tween France and Germany-France lost
as many as 1856 600 men, of whom some 3d.
600 died of wounds received In battle &c. 900
by sickness accident. suicide, etc, and
20,0O0 in German prisons. French sta
tistician estimates that his counrymen
who were wounded. but who survived.
numbered 1876, 900, those injured on the
march or by accident. II 421; those who
recovered from illness, $4,000, making a
total of Al, 421 direct sufferers. The Ger
man killed numbered 40,S77; 17,255 died on
the field and 1023 in the ambulances,
making 1855 in all. The wounded who
survived numbered 18, 543 men. From first
to last the German field artillery fired 540,-
900 shots and the infantry 100000. The
booty of war consisted Of 5,526 fortress
guns 9l5 field guns and rapid-firing can
non. 1O7 eagles and flags, and $4,000 rifles.
exclusive of what was captured at leisure
on abandoned fields.
Tn monetary loss suffered by France
was y SOS, 4S7, 522 francs, including 1886 4l2,-
55S francs for military expenses, 5,742,93S,
814 francs paid to Germany, loans l,l56,-
327 955 francs, losses suffered by the state,
z, 033, 939, 600 francs public works 2N, 239, 500
francs, indemnities paid by the state 20
departments, GOA, 622. 425 francs, damages
borne by the communes and not reim-
bursed by the state, 535,O00O0 francs.
Capt. Otto Berndt of the Austro-Hun-
garian grand general staff, published about
year ago figures relating TO the mortal
ity in particular battles between the
French and the Germans. Here they are:
Woerth s21OO Germans against $500
French; German loss 10,640 or 10 per cent;
French loss, 90 100, or Ala per cent. Spi-
Germ, 347OO Germans against 1850 French;
German loss, $40, or IA per cent; French
loss 1880 or 14s per cent Coombey-
Neuilly, $1,000 Germans against 1920
French; German loss, 4,9l0, or So per cent;
French loss, $3.50. or 4 per cent. Marsha
Tour 5000 Germans against ll3,oOO
French; German loss, 1880, or 1913 per
cent: French loss, 1890. or IA per cent.
Gravelotte-St. Privat, $4,000 Germans
against 112, 800 French; German loss, q. 100.
or 11.3 per cent; French loss, 12,270, or 1913
per cent Sedan, 154, 900 Germans against
5000 French; German loss. $500, or 5.5 per
cent French loss, $4,000, or 42.2 per cent.
The total loss TO both sides averaged 12.5
per cent. of the fighting strength. For
the seven years war the average was 23.5
per cent; for the Napoleonic wars, 10;
Russo Polish war GS3l), 1876; Italian war
1850, SIS; Austro- Hungarian war ds4a-s),
49, Crmean war, Is; Austro-Prussian war
of 1866, Y.
Turkey. partly from necessity and party
from choice. Is the most warlike of the
European nations. Her records from the
beginning of the century to the end OF 1886
was thirty-seven years OF war to sixty-five
Of peace; Spain with thrty-one years OF
war to sixty-fve OF peace, has second
place; then comes France with twenty
seven years Of war and sixty-nine Of peace;