Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-16

whole war, was 1904, 467, contribu-
ton of man power, according to the
] Statistics" second only to France,
| though the actual figures of the
strength of the French armies are not
available for comparison. The third
! largest contribution was made by the
United States in sending approx
mately 100000 men to France in the
A. E. f.
100000 Casualties for Britain.
The number of casualties among
British troops in all theaters of war
| up to November II, 1918, is given as
| 3,OS4,01S, or more than 30 per cent of
the total man power employed. Of
these 6S9,246 were killed or died Of
wounds or disease, the greatest pro-
portion of these mortalities, 561 ,335,
occurring among the forces in France.
The wounded numbered 2,O35,9 65.
The operations in Mesopotamia
created the heaviest wastage of all.
There the maximum strength on any
date was 447,531, and the total person
mel employed during the operations
was SS9, 702, or all but double, largely
because of heavy casualties from sick
ness, there being only BLISS battle
mOrtalities, 81 ,156 wounded and 1880
missing and prisoners.
Another table gives the approximate
number of British casualties from the
outbreak of war in 1914 to December
81, 1920 as 90S,371 soldiers dead in or
through the war, and the number of
wounds received as 2,090,212. Of the
dead 7O2, 40 were natives OF the Brit
ish Isles, $3.50 were Australians, &c.
$50 were Canadians and 62,056 were
Indian natives.
The variations in the length of the
line held by British forces in France
and Flanders is given in another table.
1t ranged from 20 miles in September,
1914, following the retreat from Mons
and the first battle of Ypres, to n max
imum of 123 miles in February and
March of 1918, after which it steadily
declined until it measured GA miles at
the cessation of hostIlities on Novem-
Der IL.
100000 Court MartiaIed.
In regard to discipline 304,262 Off
GERS and soldiers were tried by court
martial during the war. OF these, 270,-
927, almost 90 per cent, were convicted.
These courts passed $3.50 death SEN
fences, of which only 346 were carried
out, however, three of the culprits be-
s11c Of
of murder and the other two of de-
sertion. Desertion, with 266 death
pensIties inflicted, constituted the
chief capital offense. Murder was Sec
ond, with 81 death penalties inflicted,
and cowardice third, with IS cases.
Between December 16, 1914, and
August 8, 1918, Great Britain was ex-
posed to 4S Zeppelin raids of which
II included London; 80 airplane raids
of which 20 included London, and to
II commandments from the sea by
German war vessels.
The airship raids killed $50 and
wounded 1857 persons. and the air
planes killed S57 and wounded 1850,
while the bombardments killed 157
and injured 1884, The total number of
casualties from the three causes was
5.611, of whom all but 752 were civil
ians. The raids and bombardments
killed All women and 295 children and
injured 1,210 women and 772 children.
The first tanks. a British device In
origin, were built during the last half
of 1916, 80 of them. During 1917 the
outpu: was 1,277 and during 1918 IL
was 1891. giving total output of 2.
818 tanks.