Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-02-28

ficers and men sent on service over
seas from India up to September 80,
1918. was 1,215,33S.
The total Indian casualties in the
same period were 101.439, OF which
more than half were incurred in Mes
opotamfa. In this theatre there were
14,742 killed and 30,5S9 wounded.
The next largest casualties were in
Cured in France, with $500 killed
and 1880 wounded.
On November 10, 1915, the British
Deputy Secretary of War. Mr.. Mac
Pherson, made a long statement in
the House Of Commons giving the
total casualties Of the British Armies
as they had so far been ascertained
and tabulated. On November 26th
the British Admiralty issued state
ment in regard to naval losses Mr..
Macpherson said:
The military casualties in the Elk
peditionary Forces in the different
theatres of war are necessarily in
complete. and I am afraid that some
time will have to elapse before the
exact figures can be given. Up to
November 10, 1918, the figures, in
, Guiding the dominion and the Indian
troops, in the various theatres of
operations. are as follows:
Total Of killed. wounded, and miss
ing: Officers 142,634: other ranks
2.907,357. Grand total of 3,049,-
591.
The subsequent statement of the
Admiralty includes all the various
departments Of the Royal Navy and
the Royal Marines, but excludes the
Royal Navy Division used on land,
hich had been included in MIR. Mac
pherson's statement The Admiralty
statement is.
Dead, 33,361: wounded. 5,1S3:
missing, Al; prisoners. Its. Grand
total, 39,766.
The figures include a number Of
officers and men Of British merchant
ships and fishing vessels serving on
board H. NJ. ships and auxiliaries and
other commissioned vessels. In addi-
ton the following losses have been
sustained by men of these classes
while pursuing their ordinary voca-
tions:
Killed, 1861 officers and men;
captured, 1926 officers and men.
Losses Of France.
France was able ITO place in the
field at once nineteen army corps,
amounting to 100000 combatants.
BY the time Of the battle OF the
MarDe in September this force had
been reinforced by thirty-six divi-
sfons OF reserve troops, by territor-
ials. and 10000 troops from Algiers
and Morocco, both white and pative.
BY January, 1915, France had en-
rolle'l in iler army, excluding colo
NAL troops. fully IL per cent Of her
population, or 100000, including
| the classes Of 1916 and 1915. Four
subsequent classes were added later,
producing about 1,500, 900, which
gave Continental France alone total
Of 100000 mon enrolled.
During the war France issued no
figures in regard to either recruiting
or eiliatments or casualties. Sub
sequently, however French officials
nave been furnished with data as far
IS ascertained and audited. Thus
M. AoraZ, Under Secretary of State
announced in the Chamber on De.
ceniber 20, 1918, that the number
or killed up to November 1st, aggre.
gated 1,071,300, with $1,000 officers
and 100000 men, while the total
number OF dead, prisoners, and miss
ing reached $4,000 officers and l..
, $4,000 men. This statement had
been In reply toa speech made by the
Socialist Deputy, Lucien voilin, which
altogether a plea for the Immediate
decentralization OF the army, furnish.
ed valuable Information. voilir
said:
Il betray no secret when / ga,
that the problem of rehabilitation
presents itself thus: we have mobil.
lied 100000 men. we have had
about 100000 killed, while $780,.
600 recovered from wounds. We are
going to demobilize 100000 re-
! serves, territorials, and heads OF
families. There are about $500.
! 600 men who will remain modified
The question is what does the Gov.
ernment intend 10 do with 1000.