New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
q, 100000 Men in Arms
and II Nations Fighting

More imam nail tne pOpuIdllOH OF lHe
world lives in the countries at war.
The population of the warning coun-
tries is estimated roughly at 947,OOO,-
600 and Of the countries az peace at
797,OOO.O0O. The population of the En-
tente nations is perhaps five times as
great as that OF their opponents. The
number of men under arms has been
estimated variously, usually in the
nciehborhood Of z0000,000. William
Michaelis, writing recently in a Berlin
magazine, put the number Of soldiers
al war at 21,770,0O0; for the Allies, 49,
S20,000 for Germany, Austria-Hungary
and Turkey, S,950,00O.
No previous war has approached the
present one in wholesale destruction of
life. This Is due not only to the num-
Der of men involved but to the terri
BILE efficiency Of modern weapons.
Trench warfare on a great scale. with
its deadly charges, mining operations
and extensive use of artillery and hand
crenades has contributed to this end.
Whereas in the past il has been cal
culated that the proportion of killed
TO total caSua ties runs one TO eight
or one to ten, the proportion in trench
warfare as indicated by official British
statistics, is about one TO five
The battles on the plains Of Elan
derS, on the Warsaw front, in the
Austro- German advance through Ga
licia and in the Carpathians were at
tended by frightful slaughter. Russian
losses in the Carpathians alone were
estimated unotiicially at 100000. Along
the battlefelds from Arras. in North
western France, 10 the Belgian coast
whole fields have been covered with
cOrpSeS, and at the time Of the Ger
man attempt TO reach the English
Channel the User Canal was choked
with the dead According to official
British statistics the British army
alone has been losing Of late, in killed,
wounded and missing, 1000 a day. on
June 9 Premier Asquith announced that
British casualties since the beginning
OF the war excluding naval losses of
1883 up 10 May 80 amounted to 1885,
O69, of which the total of killed was
50,342. Later, however, on July p, Mr..
Asquith issued a statement saying that
the naval casualties up to July 20 were
9,106. Apparently Mr. Asquith's first
statement was based on mlslnforma-
tion, since corrected.
Inc losses OF wi IldHNt L lduOt anu
Russia, by reason of their larger
armies. have been far greater The
"Heer und Politik.' of Berlin, early in
June estimated that more than 5,O00,-
600 soldiers Of the countries at war
with Germany and her allies have been
killed. wounded or captured. lillalre
Belloc, the English military writer, said
Germany's potential manhood for
actua. fighting probably had diminished
from all causes by nearly one-half in
the first year of the war, and asserted
n conservative estimate was that Ger
many had much nearer 100000 than
3 900 600 men permanently out Of the
field. Estimates of the total casualties
run from 100000 TO 100000, with
the former figure probably conserva-
tive.
The cost in money runs TO similarly
huge total. Great Britain Is now
spending about Sl5,000,0O0 day on
the war. according to Premier ASquith.
Albert Metin, general budget reporter
of the French Chamber Of Deputies,
calculates he war is costing France
$40. 1000 minute, or $l4,4O0,0OO day.
William Michaelis recently estimated
the daily cost to Germany at SS,25O,OOO.
saving forty days of this war cost as
much as the whole Franco-Prussian
War Of 1S7O-'7l. In March DR.. Kari
Secretary Of the Imperial
Treasury Of Germany, said the war was
costing all beIligerents S315,OOO,OOO
week.