BALKAN STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17947, 14 November 1918, Page 5

BALKAN STATES.

THE COST TO SERBIA; HALF MALE POPULATION PERISHED. A. and K.Z; Cable' Association and Bents* - LONDON, November 12. A Serbian official! message announces Jk?J i rom . JuJ y 25, 1914, to July 14, 1916, Serbia placed 707,313 men in thp field and maintained during the whole or that period half a million effectives, lhe number who had fallen in battle or died 'm captivity up to the last Serbian offensive was 322,000, showing that one-half tho male population perished outright in tho war. The total loss of live stock, war material and military expenses up to arrival at Corfu amounts to over £90,000,000, including damage to private property and requisitions of foodstuffs.