Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1919 — 7,450,200 MEN DIED [ARTICLE]

7,450,200 MEN DIED

AMERICANS SUFFER 120,000 CASUALTIES IN FORTYSEVEN DAYS. Washington, June 26.—American casualties during the 47-day MeuseArgonne offensive aggregated 120,000 men, or ten per cent of the 1,200,000 engaged, according to a “statistical summary of the war with Germany,” prepared by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, chief of the statistical branch of the general staff, and published by the war department. Of etery 100 American soldiers and sailors who took part in the war, the report said, “two were killed or died of disease during the period of hostilities. In the northern army during the civil war the number was‘about ten. Among the other great nations in this war between twenty and twenty-five in each one hundred called to the colors w.ere killed or died.” Nation's Losse*. Best information obtainable by the general staff places the total battle deaths for all belligerents at 7,450,200, divided as follows: ißussia, 1,700,000. Germany, 1,600,000. France, 1,385,300. Great Britain, 900,000. Austria, 800,000. Italy, 330,000. Turkey, 250,000. _ 1 Serbia and Montenegro, Belgium, 102,000. Roumania, 100,000. Bulgaria, 100,000. United States, 48,900. Greece, 7,000. Portugal, 2,000. , America’s Part. American participation is summarized in the report in the following table: Total armed forces, including the aimy, navy, marine corps, 4,800,000. Total men in the army, 4i000,000. Men who went overseas, 086,000. Men who fought in France’, 1,390,000. Tons of supplies shipped from America to France, 7,500,000. Total registered in draft, 24,234,021. Total draft inductions, 2,810,296. Cost of war to April 30, 1919, |21,850,000,000. Battles fought by American troops, 13. iDays of battle, 200. Days of duration of Meuse-Ar-gonne battle,. 47. American battle deaths in war, 50,000. American wounded in war, 236,* 000. American deaths from disease, 56,991. Total deaths in the army, 112,422.