The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-02-05
Approximately 10000 Men Are
Wholly Unaccounted For
Grand Total sc, ,592.
PRICE UNITED STATES
PAID FOR WORLD PEACE
Total Casualties of Thirtieth
Division 1772-List is onlye5
Per Cent. Complete.

Washington, Feb. 2-Oflcial tables
of the major battle casualties OF the
American forces IN France, made pub
lie today by Gen. March, chief OF staff
show that approximately 10, 900 men
remain wholly unaccounted for, neaE-.:
ly three months after the ending ot
hostilities. The deaths, missing aId
known prisoners are tabulated up to-
January 10, for each Of the thirty
combatant divisions Of Gen. Persh-
ing's army The total is. 56,592 off,
whom 17,434 are classified as missing
or captured. An appended STATE
-neat shows that only twentySniIes
American military prisoners were be-
lieved to be still in Germany on Jal,-s
uary 8, and that 4.800 prisoners had
died in captivity. s:ys2.
Some portion Of the great body CT.
missing men may be located as the
return Of the army thins ont the
American force in France. Indica-s
tions are, however, that the major
ity of 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 39,15S men.
To that fig3re also must be added
1851 men Of the marine brigade, fig
u1es for which, rot carried in the ta-s
bles, were obtained from Official
sources. This brings the grand aggreSs
gate of deaths from battle up to 4Q,-s
,709 on returns, estimated officially to-
be: 95 per cent complete. As figures
or missing and prisoners Of the ma
r;acs are lacking the number ofnns
accounted for. which. finally viii be-
added to the roll OF the dead, cannot
be accurately estimated.
The army tables, however gfyea
total Of 1859 men rlissinggi sin action
and 2,785 known prisoners. making gstir
the 17,434 missing or captured. The
army rolls record 1918 American n1if-
itary prisoners accounted for. Admit
tedly there are many possibilities OF
error, but the statement says it IS am
ticipated that the unaccounted for list
Of 1876 vii, be brought down to
less than 10000
The tables do not furnish any data
as to the wounded or deaths other
than those resulting directly from bait
tie. A new estimate of the complete
figures on American casualties, there
fore, is not possible. It is significant
however. that up to tonight the war
department has published the names
of 1882 men killed Or died OF
wounds. as against 39,159 shown in
the 95 per cent tables. The difference
is made up by additional returns since
the tables were closed on January 10.
On November IL Gen. Pershing es-
tinated that his total killed, and died
of wounds would be 45, ass. Presuma-
bly, publication Of the lists of these
known deaths. and exclusive Of the 3
unaccounted for is nearly completed.
having exceeded the estimate by more
than 5000. due in part to additional 81
deaths from wounds and to the list
ing as dead of men formerly reported
missing.
The names of 149,41s wounded had
been published up to tonight, COM
pared with a November estimated to-
tai of 1855. Of those missing in ac-
ton 11,e7s have been published,
against the estin1taed 1920 total
and compared with the 17,434 missing
and prisoners shown in today's tables.