Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Statistics of the Russian Losses. [ARTICLE]

Statistics of the Russian Losses.

The Courricr des Etats Unis gives some official statistics of the Turco-Rus-sian war, from which it appears that the Russians slain or wounded, during the conflict just ended, amount to 89,304 officers and soldiers. The number of Generals represented in. tnis sum is twenty-one. A Prince of the imperial family and thirty-four members of the higher Russian nobility died on the fields of battle. Of the wounded, 36,824 are already completely cured, and 10,000 others will be able to leave the hospitals in a few weeks. There were 121 men prisoners in the hands of the Turks at the time the aimistice was concluded. Of all the Russians who fought in the war, one-sixth were either killed or wounded—» rather large proportion. This was, however, about the proportion of the killed and wounded in.the FrancoGerman war. In the ‘ battles of Worth and of Spickeren, it. was one-sixth; it was one-eighth in the battles of Vionville and’ Mars-la’-Topr, while at Gra velotte it was only one-eleventh. Some may be surprised to be told that, in some

of the great battles of the early part of this century, the losses relatively to the number of combatants were considerably greater. Of the Russian wounded admitted to hospitals, one of every eleven died of his injuries. In the course of the whole war only two Russians were punished by death, one for desertion and one for robbery with violence—a remarkable showing.