WAR’S CASUALTIES
OVER TEN MILLIONS In First Two Years TWO AND A-HALF MILLIONS DEAD FAus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l (Rec. 11.40) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. The casualties of all of the nations engaged, after two years of the war, are over ‘ten millions The exact figure estimated is 10,324,000. This estimate is based on what the “New York Daily Mirror” describes as “a reliable international survey in which American Congressmen have collaborated with belligerent Embassies.” The foregoing total over two and a half millions of killed. The estimates are:— Killed: 2,520,000. Wounded, missing cr prisoners: 7,804,000. The figures for the casualties of the nations are as follows:—
Tlie remainder of the casualties, have been sustained by the British Dominions.
Military Civilian Germany 1,282,000 15,000 Italy 252,000 1,000 Russia 2,585,000 280,000 France 2,635,000 65,000 Poland 1,675,000 450,000 Britain 134,000 100,000 8,563,000 911,000
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Grey River Argus, 16 September 1941, Page 5
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