The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-09
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turn the SCALE" the New York World
points out. ''It was a costly service.
Song and story will never
cease to immortaliZe the price these
fifty thousand Americans, with heads
held high and hearts undaunted, paid
for the freedom of the nations" The
Chicago Evening Post comments:
America was prepared in spirit to
spend greatly for the cause of hu-
manity. Her sons would have died
in numbers equal to those of Britain
or of France had occasion demanded.
From such sacrifices we were spared.
Let this thought make hearts tender
and sympathy generous when we
think of those who paid, without muir
muring, the greater price,
"Our men were purposely placed at
one of the most vital and difficult
points of the line and told to hack
their way through" the New York
Evening Sun observes, and finds much
consolation in the conviction that the
"long, bitter, murderous struggle"
which resulted was merciful in the
end:
at was a wise policy, this policy
of forcing the fighting, and in the end
it saved lives. For it crusht the
enemy's line, crusht his resisting
power, crusht his purpose and will to
fight on. 1t detracts nothing from
the glory of our brave allies to say
that it was the desperate onslaughts
in the Argonne more than any other
one thing which broke the heart of
the German Army"
Our total sacrifice of human life
was practically the same as that of
Canada, which has one thirteenth OF
our population, and only slightly
greater than that credited to the little
Belgian Army of 100000, of whom
100000, according to one authority,
were listed as casualties. The British
official casualty list of 3,049,991, in
cluding 658,665 killed and 1881 1926
wounded, is generally considered sur
prizingly large, in view of Great
Britain's contemplate little army"
at the beginning Of the war. The
Pittsburg Dispatch comments on this
'srecord that compels the admiration
of the world
'.It has been too often forgotten
that in addition to her part on the
Western Front Great Britain has had
to maintain armies and fight battles
on more and widely separated fronts
than any other belligerent of the AL
lies. British casualty figures will be
worth remembering on December z,
the day set apart for America to do
honor to her British Allies in the war
for human freedom
The French, in conformity with
their policy of "proud silence
throughout the war, have thus far
issued no casualty list, but most au-
thorities are agreed that the total can
not be less than 100000. One au-
thority, attempting 'an estimate OF
Frances sacrifice in a roundabout
way, reaches the conclusion that the
French actually killed on the West
Front number one and quarter mil
lions. Germany's official list, giving
1,58O,OOO killed, 100000 whose fate,
according to the Vorwarts of Berlin,
is unknown, and 100000 wounded, is
considered conservative by several
commentators.
Italys official report shows total
of 100000 men called to arms out
of a total population of 36,0O0,OOO.
'This figure" according to a dispatch
from Rome, showing that Italy's
total mobilization reached ID 1-2 per
cent of her entire population, it IS
believed, will surpass that of any
other allied nation" Italian casual
ties amounted to about 100000, of
whom 100000 were killed in battle,
and 100000 died of disease or other
causes.-Literary Digest.