The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-02-06
The Great Tragedy Of
Vars FoHogv A11er-
IS rte Expe,7ences
TEN THOUSAND AMERICAN
TROOPS STILL WHOLLY
rUNACCOUNTED FOR

Total Deaths, Missing and Known
Prisoners for Each Of the 80 Com
4 batant Divisions Published as Tabu-
lated Up to January 10, Aqgregatinq
56,592, Including 17,434 Missing or
Captured-TotaI Killed and Died of
Wounds, 39s45R.
Washington, Feb. 4-Official tables
of the major battle casualties of the
American forces in France, made pub
| lie Saturday by General March, chief
! of staff, show that approximately TO-
| 600 men remain wholly unaccounted
| for nearly three months after the end
ing Of nostilities. The deaths, missing
and known prisoners are tabulated up
to January 10, for each of the 80
combatant divisions of General Per-
shing's army. The total is Sc 6,592, OF
whom 17,434 are classified as missing
or captured.
An appended statement shows that
only % military prisoners were be-
ieved to be still in Germany on Jan
uary s, and that 1900 prisoners had
been checked UP as returned and 118
died in captivity.
Some portion Of the great body of
missing me1 nay be located as the
return of the army thins out the
American forces in France. Indica-
the 10000 finally will be added to the
roll of honor shown in the tables Of
those killed or died of wounds, now
recorded as 39,158 men.
10 that figure also must be added
1851 men of the marine brigade, A.;
ures for which, NOT carried in the
tables, were obtained from Official
sources. This brings the grand aggre
gate of, deaths from battle up to 40,70a
on returns estimated officially to be IS
per cent completed. AS figures on
missing and prisoners Of the marines
are lacking, the Dnmber OF unaccc''n+-
ed for which finally will be added to-
the roll of the dead cannot be accu-
rately estimated.
The army tables, however, give a to-
tal of 1853 men missing in action
and 2,785 known prisoners, making up
the 17,434 missing or. captured. The
appended statement shows that the
army rolls record 1918 American milf
tary prisoners accounted for. Admit
tedly, there are many possibilities of
error, but. the statement says. it is an
ticipated that the indicated unaccOunt-
ed for list of 1856 will be brought
down to less than 10000" ~
The tables do. not furnish any data
as to the wounded or deaths other
than those resulting Gireetly from
battle. new estimate Of the com
pIete figures on American casualties
therefore is not possible. It is signf-
cant, however, that up to Saturday the
war department has published the
names of 1882 men killed or died of
wounds as against 39,158 shown in the
95 per cent tables. The difference is
made up by additional returns since
the tables were closed January 10.
Publication Nearly Finished2
On November 27 General Pershing
estimated that his total killed and
died of wounds would be 40,455. Pre-
sumabIy publication Of the lists OF
these known deaths and exclusive OF
the unaccounted for is nearly COM
pleted, having exceeded the estimate
by more than 5000 due in part to addi-
tional deaths from wounds and to the
listing as dead Of men formerly re-,
ported missing.
The names of 149,418 wounded had
been published up to Saturday, COM
pared with November estimated to-
tai of 1S9,955. OF these missing in
action, 1876 have been published
against the estimated 1920.