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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1915, Page 5

THTI RUIXOUS HUMAX TOLL. A writer in the British Review lan the ruinous toll of human lives taken by the present war. It may be taken fur granted, he says, that the ratio of casualties generally has been far higher than in any previous war, and the ratio of casualties is still more terrible. It has been estimated that the number of killed and damaged beyond the potability of resuming active life exceeds a million and a-half, and this rate of earnage is not likely to lessen. When the lust .shot has been tired and the muster roll is called, it will certainly be found that the number of men who have been killed, died of disease, or have been permanently disabled will be at least three millions. These will be taken from all conditions of life, but, mostly from the laboring classes. That is to Say, that twj> and a-half millions will be lost to (Ufrauits which are vital to the progress of mankind. It is estimated that had Drilain's ;l.OO0,U0l) new soldier.* been at have earned at least '£234.000.000 in wages; would have produced and handled goods to the value of £:iSO,000,000; and would further have produced as profits £:tS,O0l),0UO. In the centre of Europe the loss has been much greater. At least 11,000,000 men have been' with* drawn from production, at a cost or .0800,000,00 in the first year of'the war. The prospective loss of production by the destruction of human life eajmot bo calculated, but one authority says that .£8,000,000 is probably under the mark. To a great extent the damage done by; money losses can sooner or later be repaired, but the premature loss of human energy cannot be 'made good in this oO the succeeding generation. During Monday a,bout 20 tradesmen in Wellington with plateglass show-win-dows discovered to their dismay that their windows had been, in mosi eases, badly marked, either by a diamond or a glass-cutter. The perpetrator has evidently set out with the intention of doing as much damage as possible, and fewplaces along Lanibton Quay and m Willis Street were spared a visit between closing time on Saturday and 8 o'clock on Monday morning. The marks made by the cutter vary in character. Some are the One, thin marks of a diamond point, whilst others appeared to have been gashed by a blunt glass-cutter. The matter ii tow i&f&tiWiri by the OTliMi