WAR CASUALTIES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 11

WAR CASUALTIES

Figures From Tokio And Barcelona JAPANESE AND SPANISH DEAD > London, April 3. The toll of two years in human lives is indicated by figures received from Tokio and Barcelona, which do not take into account the Chinese military losses or the unknown extent of suffering by the peoples of China, Japan and Spain. , The army spokesman at Tokio gives the number of Japanese soldiers killed in North and Central China at 20,000, but Hankow claims that 280,000 Japanese have been killed since last year. The British United Press correspondent at Barcelona states that according to figures which have been checked with official sources of information about 207,000 people have perished and 220,000 have been crippled or wounded in republican Spain alone, and property to the value of over £20,000,000 has been destroyed.

Those who have perished include 75,000 killed in action, 30,000 who have died of wounds received in action, and 17,500 killed and 1500 died of wounds in air raids and bombardments. The message includes without explanation, “Executed behind the lines 85,000.” It is estimated that those wounded in action number 160,000.