Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-02-20
TURK-BALKAN WAR
LOSS IS SAID TO
Be OVER 100000
Statisticians in Casting Up Ac-
counts Estimate This Mum.
ber Perished in
Struggle.
MONETARY LOSSES HUGE
Impossible to Arrive at Exact
Figures-Allies Reported to
Have Suffered Heavily
This Week.
MONETARY LOSSES HUGE

London. Feb 20.--With what is be.
lieNed to be the heaviest lighting OF the
Balkan war already recorded, European
statisticlans have been busily engaged
in trying to figure the loss of life and
money entaled by the campaign up
To the present day.
During the International conference
between the ENJOYS of the rival fight
ing forces here however. enough facts
were CLEANED To warrant the assertion
that the present conflict has been one
of the most bloody and costly III the
history of modern warfare.
Conservative estimates have placed
the number of dead in the Larger bat
ties of the early campaign rs follows:
Turks. Allies.
Adrianople 900 l'Uoo
I.uie Burgas s....... 10000 25.OO0
AT kumanoNa .......... 1000 o.o0o
Around Scntar ...... 1000 5000
Totai 10000 $4,000
These figures however, are regarded
as conservative and only cover the I'M
portanr battles of the campaign before
the truce Was called. In addition to
them ii is estimated that $4,000 Turk
sh soldiers perished as result OF
minor engagements and cholera. which
| iaNaged the Ottoman ranks on the re-
trea, To Constantinople Thirty thou-
| sand men are also said to have been
lost by the allies through the same
causes. This brings the estimated
| Turkish loss up to l26.O00 men and the
| estimated loss TO the fighting forces OF
| the allies up TO $1,000. total loss OF
| 10000 men. which may be said to In
clude the thousands who fell victims to
wounds. sickness. sudden death on the
| field or We're listed as missing.
| These figures of course, like all 9TH
| ers that have been compiled. are based
I 1,r.vf n
/ many experts to be too conservative.
| The actual losses of the campaign Will
not be known probably for years after
peace has been restored.
Money Loss Hard to Figure.
4 The monetary loss is incalculable.
| Aside from the vast amount OF money
| required TO carry on the actual opera
| tions in the field. there is the destruc-
/ tion of property. the injury to COM
| meree and personal liabilities to figure.
| hundreds of towns and villages have
been devastated during the struggle.
| Great cities have been damaged by fire
and pestilence Private property has
| been ravaged and the resources of the
| governments involved have been almost
| exhausted
Ii Is significant that the indemnity
asked by the Balkan envoys Mt the
| recent conference with the Turks ran
into the hundred millions. A guess az
10 llle IDIODuDlN COSY Ol lIle cOulllSl
| would make a total amount run far
into billions of dollars OF American
| money.
Another side of the conflict has been
the suffering entaled by the peasants
of both the allies and the Turks, the
deprcdatons against women of both
nations and the butchery OF non -com-
batants, news of which filtered into the
press with the return of corresponds
ents from the front If these reports
are true. the Balkan trouble has been
marked with savagery and rapine more
atrocious than that which usually fol-
lows in the wake of war.
Allies Suffer Losses.
a cettinje dispatch to the Times says
thai the allies suffered seriously in the
three days fighting which ended in the
1 capture of l3ardanjot. The Montene-
grins lost 1000 killed and wounded on
the Tarabosch side and nearly 1000 at
I'ardanjolt The Servians lost 500 at
i5erdica
Scutari has proved itself able to
Withstand tn" attack of $4,000 troops
The Servians We're handicapped by 9
lack of heavy artillery
1t is believed that the attack will be
renewed before the end of the week.