Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1915 — FIRE 4,000 BULLETS APIECE [ARTICLE]

FIRE 4,000 BULLETS APIECE

Extraordinary Expenditure of Cartridges Required to Kill One Man in This War. London.—One of the things frequent* ly nbted by soldiers at the front in writing to relatives and friends is the extraordinary expenditure of bullets required to kill a man. A German report says that many German soldiers fired 4,000 cartridges apiece during the first month of the war. An English observer estimated that 25 German shells are wasted for every man killed by them. In 1870 it was calculated that the Germans fired 150 bullets and six shrapnel shells for every wounded Frenchman. In the Russo-Japanese war it is said 3,000 bullets were fired for every life lost.