The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-01
STAGGERING FIGURES
From the Brooklyn Times.

SA' tic ApioohlA II Hines.
 Under the sod of 300 acres of Calvary cemetery lie 900.0oo dead, 400 oeo more slun,- bered in their graves m the 800 acres of Greenwood's shelter. A total of 3oo onl Ill these two innonss resting places of VIC; ry mankind, sho closed their cves i'm 'soiated cases of fataI Illness, in acci de ts, or of old ago nd many decades re.ne down the alJPes cf time ere this vast number of mounds was built over the remains Of frail humanity. For orderly ana slow is the procession from life to death as decreed by the Almighty.
 But there lie today in Russia in Ga lieia, in France, In Belgium and in Elan ders, the eorpses or 2.159eo9 men who died since the beginning of last August by the nand or other men. idthlessly slaughtered In the bloom of life They were mostly strong, and happy, and glad of the sun shine, and laboring in the fields of neece And then few mad kings lasbed them against each other. and so it happens that in the II months saee the outbreak of the war nearly twice as many have died than were buried in scores of ve.rs ir Calvary and in Greenwood And trails of hot tears lead from more than 2.eOo 100 homes in the cities and in the hamlets of the warning countries to the blood-stained graves on the battlefields
 This is but one sidelight on the war to be gleaned from Red Cross figures re- gently made public: They give the total loss as s,SSi.ooo. which. in addition to the dead alluded to, include s.7s1o0O slightly wounded; 1l50,000 prisoners And it nav be assumed that these figures are far be- DIV the facts; for an official statement from Perlin just obtained, places the III hber of prisoners Tn the hands of the Germans and Austrians alone at 1, 5,c. 900
 However for arguments sake tine Red Cross statistics may well be accepted. 'helr most remarkable feature e nvevs an excellent reason for the ability If the Teutons to hold their oS.l, fer in killed and wounded and prisoners their losses are far smaller than hose of .Ee allies Gtrmany's and Austrias dead lumber on.y Se5,00o while their enemies count. i'lS,0O0 lost lives-every 10 Germans hay ing killed 15 of their enemies Now. if 1t Is considered that Austrian lnsses of 34100O Were incurred almost entirely on the Russian border, where the Czars forces sacrificed 733, 1000; and that Ger many's contribution to the silent army of 4S2,000 was made both in Russia and in France, while in the latter country and in Flanders alone the British and French lost as0,O00 men in death, 1t follows that the military fury of the Germans seem, to have far more fatal effect, man against man and weapon against weapon than assaults of the allied soldiers. Even more amazing proportions a.e figured out in respect to the wounded and the prison CTS Of the former victims 1, ,35s 600 are Germans and Austrians and 4,37S, 900 sol diers of the allies, each German wounded being offset by three wounded soldiers of the allies. And in prisoners the Germans ana Austrians lost 416,000 ard their oppo- nents 1,34S,o00.
 These are staggering figures. They ex- plain much. They tell the story of Ger many's confidence in ultimate success; of England's uneasy groping for a means to make more of her young men obey the call to arms; of Frances despair as she views her future and of Russia s helpless ness despite her immense population