THE MILLIONS OF DEAD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14847, 26 February 1919, Page 4

THE MILLIONS OF DEAD.

The New York World; states:— Officially the French , have not stated their , losses, but M v Lucien Voilin,' the Socialist '. Deputy, , puts j the number " of killed alone at 1,400,000, which is, probably from 300,000 to 400,000 below the actual figures , for those who died; from all causes. Unofficially also, Germany's dead have been, given as 2,000,000. * The latest official .■ reports for th© -. British armies were 659,000 dead, and to date . the American killed and ddad from wounds and disease m Pershing.V forces exceed! 66,000. Over 4,000,000 dead from these four armies would bo a very Conservative? estimate. Russia's losses were appalling; they run into the millions. For Italy the figures* are high, but are not yet definitely known. With Austria-Hungary, •Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Rumania, Belgium, Portugal, and Greece still to be added, it would, not be fai* wrong to assume that th© total number of killed and dead m all the armies m the great war will reach at least 10,000,000. Jt can never be accurately reckoned how many more millions of men, women and' children perished from privation and sickness due to war conditions. Of Armenians alone massacred by the Turks or condemned to starvation the estimates exceed 1,500,000. It will never be known with reasonable certainty how great was the slaughter m all the countries visited, by war* or how many victims outside the armies succumbed to i hunger, exposure, and sickness. The greatest plague ever known m the fcis- • tory of the world has swept the earth, ana it was man's deliberate doing.