Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-05
FRIDAY, MARCH ,, 1915.
THE LOSSES IN THE WAR.

CT in Coppenhageh as coming from
 russia alone gave loss of 753,2O2 fficers and men. It was then esti- hated in Denmark, aside from these losses in the Prussian army, fully half of the Bavarian arm had been put out of action. The casualty lists from Saxony and Wurtemberg were given in round figures, and made it prob able that the total German losses might come to 100000 killed, wound ed, and missing.
 It was estimated in Vienna at the same time that the Austro-FIungarian losses came to about 1,500,0O0 in kill ed, wounded and missing Hilaire Bel loc had estimated, some weeks be- fore, that the German casualties had already footed up 1,750,O 900 and the Aus trian losses 100000. In one week the total number of victims coming from the single city of Berlin amount ed to 57,S00 The Berlin newspapers are reported to have announced that majority of the residents of that city who went to the front have lost their lives.
 A neutral and presumably impartial newspaper, the Corriere de la Sera of Milan, estimated two months ago that the French had lost at least 50 per +1,o; ed Press, as far back as Nov 26, pub lished Paris dispatch estimating the French loss then, with the war less than four months in existence, at 590, 900. A month later the Neuesten Nachrichten of Berlin printed Brus' sells dispatch estimating the losses of the Allies in the Yser campaign alone as 215.O0O Premier Asquith said in the House of Commons on Feb. 8 that the British casualties amounted to about 1000 men. Sixty thousand Belgians se said by a German auth ority to have been lost in the Yser campaign alone Early in November a careful computation of Russian loss es--made in Germany, it is true, but apparently not showing much bias brought them up to 76O,OO0 men. A Russian newspaper in December gave the casualties among commissioned officers alone as 33,000. Field Mar shal von Hindenburg's estimate of the losses among his adversarieS in one month came to 250,000, of which he put the number of killed and wounded at 140000 and prisoners at 10000 Of the slaughter among the Servians, which has certainly been very great, we have no figures; nor of Turkey, where we know that at least three army corps have been vir- tually wiped out; nor of Montenegro or Persia, where we can safely as sume that the slaughter has been out of all proportion to the numbers en- gagged. Japan has probably escaped more lightly than any other nation engaged.
 It will no doubt be long before we have any accurate figures. But we know enough already to be aware that this is the most stupendous calamity that ever fell upon the world. The -Prussian war, which is gener' ally spoken of as an unusually san- guinary conflict, cost the lives of 156,OOO Frenchmen, 143,000 were wounded and disabled, and 100000 were made prisoners by the Germans or interned in neutral states. The Germans lost 2S,OOO dead and 1O1 ,0OO wounded and disabled.
 In the Russo-Japanese war the cas- ualties came to about 100000 on the Japanese side and nearly 100000 on the Russian. But that war lasted a year and half; this one has lasted only a little over six months. Our own great war lasted four years; and it is estimated that the losses on each side in all that time were about 500,. 900, which, of course, represented a heavier loss to the South than to the North, because it had smaller pop. ulation. The Union forces lost 359,. 528 in actual casualties, but the mum. Der that died of disease or injuries incurred in army service and not fig uring on the rolls is not less than 140,0OO.
 We may not accept all the figures that come to us from abroad; in fact we cannot. It will be many years be- fore the casualties are accurately