AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN LOSSES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14697, 31 August 1915, Page 4

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN LOSSES.

Th’-; • Budapest correspondent of the Morning Post, London, quotes the figures of a reliable Hungarian statesman to show mat the total of Austro-Hungarian losses Up to June Ist. was a little less than 2, 0 !,(K.O, including the sick and wounded probably JOO.OOO-who returned to the front, often two or three times, after recovery. It hj estimated by the statistician that in every five ‘months, under modern, war conditions, one-third of the -actual fighting force is on the casualty lists; therefore, it appears as if in the first five months of the war something like 3,000,000, and in the second live almost 5,000,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers have been engaged in tbe war. This statistician collected, not only the .Austrian official lists of casualties, but also the enemy reports of Austrian and German ca unities, all references to, prisoners taken on all sides, information regarding the losses of certain regiments, battalions, and larger units, ana figures with regard to contagious diseases. He states that, among the belligerents, Rus-. sia has lest the most men; Anstro-Hun-gary is second on the list, and Germany the third. In October last Germany was leading, Tud France was second. Since then Franco has come to be the fourth on tbe l-st. Austria advanced to tbe second on account of disease and the Carpathian battles, where “frost-bite” alone c’a’med nearly 109.000 men during the winter campaign. Only 50 per cent, of th-“so. recovered; the rest could not be sent back to the front, as a great number hid to undergo ampn'ation. The statistician estimated, on the basis of tbe returns cf the military'hospitals, that the winter campaign,- in the CaiTa’iiirtns cliimol iro-e th’p 120,009 m»ii in ccn“o.qifence of c-iiisniniiti-n, of wbrin only 13 jvt cert, were again .available for pervio, 27 nor cent, died in hospitals, the o f her 60 per rent, are either in hrspil al still (or have been sent to their homes. Typhus' fvnl cholera, were also frequent in military hospitals,' especially the feline* .