Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-21
FRANCE LOST 100000
SOLDIERS IN THE WAR
Deputy in Speech Says Republic
Had Nearly Seven Million
Men Under Arms.

| ing the war, according TO statement
bv the Socialist Deputy, Lucien Violin,
| in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday
afternoon His announcement was made
during an Interpolation of the Govern
ment on rehabilitation.
| Deputy VoiIn asked that the soldiers
be returned to the soil and the factories
without delay, and continued: II be-
| tray no secret when / say that the prob
| lem of rehabilitation presents itself
| thus. we have mobilized 5000, 900 men,
we have had about 100000 killed,
while 100000 recovered from wounds.
| We are going to demobilize ,2OO,W0 re-
serves, territorials and heads OF families.
100000 HUNS KILLED
| When the total German casualties are
published the number of dead will be
| found to be about 2,0O0,0o0 according
! 10 the Cologne Gazette of November 20,
a copy of which has been received here.
Up to October 25, the total casualties
reported we're 6,066, 100, of whom more
! than 1850. 900 were Prussians. The total
! includes the naval casualties, which were
! about 10000 comprising more than Z5,-
/ 600 dead more than $4,000 missing, and
nearly $4,000 wounded.
Casualty List 1884, published on
| October "a, according to the Cologne
| Gazette, placed the number of dead at
/ l.6II.IO the number of wounded ut
! 1858, las, and the missing at 1892.
| The paper saws that of the number re-
| ported missing 10000 may be considered
! dead.
| The Gazette uses the word "appall-
ing in describing the casualties among
| the officers. The total ON October a. IN
| cludcd a. 200 officers killed. ~, 400 wound
/ ! 4 fnf al n{ lao ftHt
| The loss IN officers alone. the paper points
| out. exceeds the total casualties OF Ger
many in the Franco-Prussian war, when
| the Losses were 29,6qS.
| SUMMARY or ROCHE LOSSES.
! The total on October "a, which did not
F.! include casualty lists from the fighting on
/ the western front after that date, nor the
| German losses in Palestine, WAS appor-
! toned hv the Gazette rs follows among
1 the various army contingcntS
Prussia .262 .O60 dead, 2,SS2, ,671
| wounded. 6I6,13o missing, total, 400
| $50
Bavaria I5O,6:7S dead. 1858. .S23 wound
/! cd. -2.lI5 missing total 5S6. 500
| Saxonv lOS.0l7 dead. 252 ,027 wound
/ cd. l.-S7 missing total, Ill .S3i.
Nurt,cmherg IA ,5o7 dead l5565i
\ wounded. l6S02 missing: total. 2}6,963.
/ Navy 25,s62 dead, Is, ,o6S wounded,
/ l5,679 missing, total. 70,509
4 BATTLEsHIps LOST At IUTIAND.
4 In the battle Of Jutland the Germans
! admitted loss OF SIX ships, with total
/ of 2,l36 men killed or prisoners pre-
! slIming their compliments were full)
making total casualty list Of | ,36S up
| to june !. 1916.
l II of I,,t .kar.,
no great sea engagements with heavy
| losses to the Germans The loss between
June 1916, and October p 1918,
which amounts to 50. III 30. .509-l ,}69l
! therefore. must have been, according
/, to apparent deductions made from the
Gera an data, principally caused when
1 U-boats were sunk. unless, indeed. the
| German report Of the Losses at the battle
/ of .Jutland We're far below those report
| ed BY the German admiralty at the
/ time
I ON September 6, 1918. the British
admiralty published an account Of the
fate Of $50 I--hoats of these, ll6 had
! their officers reported as killed, IN the
| majority uf cases, il is presumed, that
the crews persisted also, which would
| amount to loss Of not over 5000 men
which does not go far toward reducing
the total OF 81, III
LOSSES or GERMAN NAVY.
With the exception Of the naval losses
! which show nearly 90 per cent of Ger
nanv's naval personnel IN 1917 the
! total number OF German casualties,
6 OCT. 100 reported IN the Cologne Ca
zett4 of Nov. p as having been regis
tered up 10 October 25. SINCE the war
began. approximately agrees with the
estimates made abroad both official
and unofficial The naval casualties,
however. 90 far bevond All foreign cstI-
mates. and are almost double the Brit
ish naval loss The German naval loss
Is distributed as follows = S62 dead,
p. g6q wounded, 1863 missing. total.
1860
The British loss At sea. according 10 a
statement of the admiralty ON Nov, %,
had been up TO Nov H. 50 766. distrib-
uted as follows Dead, 33 36I; wounded.
5.l83: missing AZ; prisoners, LIS.
II is well-known fact that the Ger
man navy sustained her heaviest sea
losses Al Heligoland, August 2S. 1914;
off Falkland Islands, December S, 1914;
in the battle Of Jutland May 81, 1916.
and during the intensive t'-boat cam
paign from February ! 1917, till October
25. 1913 when the U-boats were recalled.
In the Heligoland battle, Germany
suffered loss of four en- ire crews, or
lI.I99 killed or prisoners, mostly the
former. of Falkland Islands she lost
four entire crews with Il total OF 2, lS2.
Or 934 dead and 34S prisoners Aside
from these battles she had lost IN varl-
ous sea actions down TO the eve of the
battle of Jutland 1858 naval men in
killed and prisoners, making q total
naval loss TO May 81, 1916, OF 1924
GREAT CASUALTY LIST FROM FIGHT
The item Of IS. .968 wounded in the
German casualty list is as cxtraordi-
nary as is the total, and, according to
naval men. can only be accounted for
by the fact that ships which bore them
reached home ports in a crippled con
dition or that the men had been rescued
from sinking ships and taken home.
! The U-boat losses, il Is believed, can
not be made to account for more than
few wounded, as I-bOats were usually
sunk with all on board or captured
Both the wounded and the 50, ri total
not otherwise accounted for, may, how
ever, be measurably covered in the
light Of Admiral Jellicoes report Of the
Battle Of Jutland, In which twenty-one
enemy ships were "seen 10 sink " These
vessels added to the German confessed
losses were three battleships, two crtlis-
ers. nine destr0yers, and one submarine
and increase the German loss Of per
| SopuPl either killed or wounded in tho