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THE STATISTICS OF THE WAR

THE CASUALTIES OF THE WAR

The following table shows the number of battle-deaths in the Great War-that is, the number of men who died in action or directly as a result of wounds:

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* Of this number, 271,014 are listed as "missing." Both Army and Navy losses are included.

† Including 58,000 Australians; 52,000 Canadians.

The German Government claims that in addition some 600,000 German civilians died during the war because of the food shortage.

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It is more difficult to present accurate figures as to the total casualties of the war. Many soldiers originally reported as missing are later found to have been killed or captured, many were wounded more than once, and many killed were previously included in the wounded column. The following figures, however, are compiled from official reports of some of the belligerents, with the figures for the other belligerents acquired by using the ratio of total casualties to deaths obtaining among these official reports:

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Estimates of the losses in wars of the nineteenth and twentieth cen

turies are as follows, although the data are extremely meagre and

unreliable, except in the case of the Union forces in the Civil War, where the figures may be regarded as official:

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The following figures show the cost of the war to the spring of 1919, almost half a year after the cessation of hostilities. Naturally, the expenses of the Great War will continue for many years after the final ratification of the peace treaties.

British Empire
France

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ENTENTE ALLIES

$38,000,000,000
26,000,000,000

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