Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — ITALY’S LOSS IS 2,800,000 [ARTICLE]

ITALY’S LOSS IS 2,800,000

500,000 Men Were Killed, 300,000 Died of Disease. New York, Dec. .27.—Italy’s losses in killed, wounded, dead of disease, disabled, missing and prisoners aggregate 2,800,000, according to Col. Ugo Pizzarello of the Italian army, who arrived here recently a mission for his government, “Disease alone took a death roll of 300,000 men in the war zone,” he said, “while the number killed was 500,000 and the wounded, missing and prisoners 2,000,000. Poland Threatens Germany. Zurich, Dec. 27.—Poland has sent an ultimatum to Germany, threatening war.