DOSSES BY BRITISH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13786, 11 September 1915, Page 10

DOSSES BY BRITISH.

INTERESTING. COMPjARISON WITH PREVIOUS%ARSI

PREVIOUS%ARSI

I "' ■■'..'"'•; LONDON, July 10. . k ' The Lancet, discusshig the statistics } -J of the .casualties- announced, by the Y , Prime Minister m theHQusQ;of Commons jl recently, says :r~ .v , | Of. tho- total losses m the arriiy thej : killed' numbered 3327 officers and 47,015 ■•■ J non-commiß^iqued* oftiocrs and men. liifj no previous :-,pi' of- which wo- have accu- j ■rate -statistical records -has i, there -been ll , so great a-.ioss..pf-.Jife; m a-similai'' period ij 1 of time,- and. the 'figures dealing with the '\ army' can -be submitted; to certain rough •.( comparisons. '.» » i '.t^-i ■ ■ .if- (;-.-,.•■' jj • Througho ut the Crimean > campaign t h e (J British' losses were 2755 killed "arid -pi 12,094'wouiided ; aiid our allies, lost 8250 j killed and Aad 39,868 wounded. In the j Franco-German war of 1870-71' during { the wholo-;period -°fnom"J;uly i*f or April, . the Germans had 17,570. killed and j 96,189- wounded. In' the' Russo-Tiirkish wai". pf 1877' the Russianß-ilost 32^780 killed and' liad 71,268 Svounded: -In'the ! South /African- war there wefe*62s6 killed p m action/ and- '26,286 wounded; In the f absence of ?authoi'itative.'Stetistica as to the numbers' 6f- men engajsfedy : -it ' is* im- " possible"to -camparc' the relative. 'losses by ! wdnhds.' ahd>by deatli-vihtho* pfesentY campaign •- wjth previous experiences. J Th 6 ratio of killed to and ■ missing ;is as l>ti> 4-25, oi* 23.5 :^-?v cent. In the Crimea; tho u-atio of %illfed to the number • wounded pnd mife^iiig itf^ as T'' to 4-4, 0iv ; f12.7 percent?.) iri"< the 'FraiicoGerman war of'>lß7o i't- ; was as Ito 5.70, or 17.-53 per cent. ;iiv the Rusfc-Tutkish war it;. was. ,«j*i 1 ■•to'-:8.17,' Or 45;98 i^or ! cent. ; m. 'SOutlri Africa? 'it %as As 1 to '5, or; SO pov cent. ..•■Tlie proportion of killed> to wounded hasi^thereforo so far been similar' to,— but -slightly^ m excess } of, Ouivexperiences in' the Crimea and' 1- { South Africa-; .■••'■•■•• •■•• Among officers the proportion of killed, to wounded hA^-hceii jn thij pi'esertt war much- higher, than', iii the taai/ df tlio men —namely, ds a W2.s; ot 43.61 per cent. ; it forms our main atixietv.