Arizona republican., 1919-02-02
10000 MEN UNACCOUNTED FOR. IN PERSHINC'S FINAL
 SUMMARY OF CASUALTIES
Total Deaths, Missing And Prisoners 56,592Som Por- tion Of Appalling List Of Unknown Expected To Be Made Up-Wounded Total 149,4l Infantry Bore Brunt Of Fatalities Artillery Escaped Much Slaughter Regiments Lost One Third

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Official ta- bles of the ma jor battle casualties or the American forces in France, made public today by General March, chler or staff, show that approximately 10000 men remain wholly unaccounted for nearly three months fter the ending or hostilities The deaths, missing and known prisoners are tabulated up to January 10 for each of the 30 combat ant divisions of General Pershing's army. The total is 56592. of which T., ASA are classified as missing or cap tured. An appended statement shows that only 29 American military prison CTS were believed still to be in Ger many on January 8. and that 4,s00 pris- oners had been checked up as returned and 11S died in captivity.
 Some portion of the great body of missing men may be located as the re- turn of the army thins out the Ameri- can force in France. Indications are, however that the ma jority of the 0,o0e 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.
 l To that figure, also. must be added | 1,551 men of the marine brigade, fig ures for which, not carried in the ta- bles. were obtained from official sources. This brings the grand aggre- | gate of deaths from battles up to 40,709. on returns estimated officially to be e5 | per cent complete. As figures on miss ! ing and prisoners of the marines are 1 lacking, the number of unaccounted for which finally will be added to the roll ! of the dead cannot be accurately esti- mated
 10000 Unsccounted For
 The army tables. however. give | total of 14,649 men missing in action and 2,7S5 known prisoners making up | the 1i.434 missing or captured. The army rolls record 491S American mili- 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 12.516 will be brought ! downto less than 120,000.''
 The tables do not furnish any data as to the wounded or deaths other than those resulting directly from battle A new estimate of the complete figures on American casualties is therefore not complete. It is significant however that up to tonight the war department has published the names of 43SS2 men killed or died of wouns as against 3a,15S shown in the s5 per cent tables. The difference is made up by addi- tional returns since the tables were closed January 10
 On November 2, General Pershing estimated that his total killed and died of wounds would be 40,455 Presum- [ ably, publication of the lists of these known dead and exclusive of the unac- counted for, is nearly completed, hay- ing exceeded the estimate by more than
 5000, due in part to additional deaths from wounds and to the listing as dead of men formerly reported missing.
 The names of 149,41S wounded has
 been published up to tonight. compared
 with a November estimated total of
 1S9.935. Of those missing in action
 1l,6l6 have been published, against the
 estimated 14,260 total, and compared
 with the 17.4S4 missing and prisoners
 shown in todays tables
 Infantry Bore Brunt
 Examination of the losses by regi- . ments shows clearly that the brunt of
 the fighting fell on the infantry. In
 every division which got into action,
 losses were many times greater. even ] proportionately to the strength of the l units, than those of the artillery. ma , chine gun battalions, trench mortar } batteries or engineers. A score of reg
 iments lost fully one-third of the full :. strngth of 3.l00 men in killed, died of 2 wounds. missing and prisoners. When !, figures on the wounded are available. officers believe the total casualty in I several regiments may equal the full , strength.
 = The artillery regiments escaped with - relatively light losses. In some cases, machine OfID h2 a1ionc cllfferaI c verely and there are a number of the
 divisional engineer rgiments that paid a heavy toll for their place in the front | lines.
 Q The first regular division. built up out of the original force General Per l. shing took to France. suffered the e heaviest casualty, with a total of 5.24S, d recorded in today's tables This division, f was first to reach the line and was al- = most constantly in action until the end. Il A striking feature of the table is tho l. losses of the 2Sth Pennsylvania na . r tonal guard) division, which stands l. second in the list with a total of 1890 :" casualties
 t The records of the 18th (New England e national guard), the 27th and 77tr. both r. New York divisions. the 32nd, the ia . if nous And CRainbow) and the 18th = Pennsylvania. Maryland and District r ol Noiuiiioid lloppSt, Wiln more than 2, two thousand casualties each, tell O. . the work they did. These and every $ other national guard or national army
 division that was given an opportunity
 at the front won it's ground despite
 losses in men.
 | Analysis of the strenuous service
 record of the 18th division, army off
 cers said, would explain its high cas-
 ualties. The 2Sth was ordered over
 seas about June l. 1918, spent the fort
 night of June 14 to July 1 in training . area,and then moved up to the from
 line, taking its position northeast O.
 Parnay. on July 16. From that dat,
 until the armistice was signed, with tn,
 exception of a rest period from Sep
 tember to September 30, the Pennsyl
 vanians were in the forefront of tn
 fighting.