War’s Terrible Toll
207,000 Killed In Spain Alone HUGE JAPANESE LOSSES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, April 3. The toll of the two current wars in human lives is indicated in figures received from Tokio and Barcelona, which do not take into account the Chinese military losses or the unknown extent of suffering of the peoples of China. Japan and Spaiu, The army spokesman at Tokio gives the number of Japanese soldiers killed in North and Central China as 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 checked with official sources, about 207,000 people have perished and that 220,000 have been crippled or wounded in Republican Spain alone. Property of a value of over £20,000,000 has been destroyed. Those who have perished include:— 75,000 killed in action. 30,000 died from wounds received in action, 17,500 killed and 1500 died from 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.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 7
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