Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — 7,450,200 IS WAR’S TOLL [ARTICLE]

7,450,200 IS WAR’S TOLL

Estimated Total Battle Deaths for All Belligerents. Total Cost to United States $21,850,000,000 —50,000 Fall in Battle. Washington.—American casualties during the 47-day Meuse-Argonne offensive aggregated 120,000 men, or 10 per cent of the total of 1,200,000 engaged, according to a statistical summary of the war with Germany, prepared by Col. Leonard P. Ayres, chief of the statistical branch of the general staff, and published by the war department. •‘Of' every 100 American soldiers and sailors who took part In the war with Germany,” 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 20 and 25 in each 100 called to the colors were killed or died.” Best information obtainable by the general staff places the total battle deaths for all belligerents at 7,450,200, divided as follows: Russia 1,700,000 Germany 1,600,000 France 1,385,300 Great Britain 900,000 Austria 800,000 Italy . • • 330,000 Turkey

Serbia and Montenegro 125,000 Belgium * 102,000 Roumanla 100,000 Bulgaria 100,000 United States 49.900 Greece . 7,000 Portugal 2,000 American participation is summarized in the report in the following table: Total armed army, navy, marine corps4,*Boo,ooo Men who went overseas 2,086,000 Men who fought in France.; 1,390,000 Tons of supplies, shipped from America to France 7,500,000 Total registered in draft. 24,234,031 Total draft ImAictlons 2,810,296 Cost of iwar to April 30, 1919, $21,850,000,000 Battles fought by American troops 13 Days of battle —2OO 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 Under the head of “Sources of the Army,” the report shows that 13 per cent came from the regular army, 10 per cent from the National Guard, and 77 per cent from the draft. A concise history of the military operations In which American troops took part is given in a chapter headed “Two hundred days of battle." Attention was called to the fact that “two of every three American soldiers who reached France took part in battle.”