Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1913 — 500,000 SHOT OR WOUNDED [ARTICLE]

500,000 SHOT OR WOUNDED

Turks Lost 300,000 Men, Bulgaria 80,000, Servia 22,000, Greece 7,000 and Montenegro 6,500. London.—Nearly 500,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded in the Balkan war and hundreds of millions of dollars expended, according to statistics compiled here. The Servians contributed 300,000 soldiers to the allies* ranks. Of these 50,000 stayed at home for service there. They lost 22,000 killed and wounded. Of these they claim only 4,000 were killed and the rest wounded. The Bulgarians sent to the field 300,000, with 50,000 on the northern frontier. They lost in killed and wounded 80,000 men, and at Kirk-Kilisseh they lost 20,000. The Montenegrins sent 75,000 men to the front, of whom they lost between 6,500 and 7,000. The Greeks contributed 120,000 meh, and they have lost up to the time of writing about 7,000 men. Servia was spending SIOO,OOO-a day from October 18 to December 23, making $6,600,000. It mobilized its army eighteen days previous to the outbreak of the war, which cost it $1,800,000. It has reserve fund enough to fight four months longer without borrowing. Bulgaria for sixty-six days has been spending $120,000 a day, making $7,920,000. Its mobilization cost another $2,160,000. • Greece has paid out $3,660,000 up to the timd of writing—that is, about $60,000 a day. Estimates of the killed and wounded are: Turkey, 300,000; Servia, 22,000; Bulgaria, 80,000; Montenegro, 6.500; Greece, 7,000. The monetary cost to the warring nations as well as to the powers is calculated thus: Turkey, $40,000,000; Turkey, In revenue lost from lost provinces, a year, $30,000,000; Servia, $13,400,000; Bulgaria, $10,000,000; Greece, $3,660,000; Montenegro, $500,000; Russia, $12,000,000; Austria, including loss of wages and profits, $38,400,000; England, $300,000; Italy, including loss of wages and profits, $3,240,000; Germany, $440,000; France, $6,000,000.