LOSSES IN THE WAR.
ALLIES' GALLANT DEAD.
FRANCE AND BRITAIN.
PROPORTIONS TO POPULATION
The official figures of the losses of the Allies up to the armi»tice aro published in a report by M. Louis Maris, reporter of the Public Comm of tho French Chamber. In killed and mining alone the following are the figures: -
France's total of wounded was 2,800,000. The expenses of the war amounted to 159,000 million francs, nominally £6,360,000,000. The losses in the table given above represent the following proportion :— i
An official British statement issued in August last gave tho ,casualties of the armies of the British Empire as : Killed, 666,833; wounded, 2,040,520; missing and prisoners, 354,568: total, 3,061,921.
Franco 1,398,515 Great Britain .. .. .. 869,000 Italy ... •. • t. ,. 494,000 Roumama. 400.000 Servid, , ,. 369,000 United Slates 114,000 Belgium 44,000 Greece , , 12,000
Franco . . 1 out of 27 inhab'tants Serviiv . . 1 „ 32 „ Gt. Britain' .1 ,. 57 „ Italy . . .. 1 ,. 78 B«lginra .. 1 v „ 150 „ Utd. States . . 1 „ 1000
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17360, 6 January 1920, Page 6
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156LOSSES IN THE WAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17360, 6 January 1920, Page 6
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