AUSTRIA'S LAST ROUND
GREY-BEABJJS CALLED TJP. TREMEK-OTJS LOSSES. LONDON, March 17. Tlie "Morning Post's" Buda Pesth correspondent states that 4,000,000 Austro-Hungarians are mobilised, representing the final effort. This total includes men of ages up to 55, although men of from 43 to 55 cannot legally be sent into the firing line.
A total of 1,700,000 are on the Russian front, 500,000 on the Italian front. 200.000 in the Balkans, and the rest in training.
A reliable statistician estimates that the Austro-Hungarian casualties to February, 1916, are as follows:—Killed, 540,300;* wounded, 2,111,000: taken prisoner, G45.000. The casualties on the Russian front are estimated as follow: Killed, 117,900; wounded, 265,000; and taken prisoner, SO,OOO. In the Balkans the estimated casualties are: —Killed, 03,700: wounded. 218,700; taken prisoner, 30.500. The casualties on the Italian front total, approximately, 400,000, of whom nearly 150,000 are wounded men who have returned to the front. It is estimated that over 400,000 Hungarians hare been killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 6
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