TOLL OF WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1921, Page 3

TOLL OF WAR

HOW AMERICA EARED. A statement showing the approximate number of casualties suffered by the combatants in the late war, and furnished l>y the Lord Privy Seal in reply to a Parliamentary question in the House of Commons, brings out strikingly, and in a manner not generally appreciated, tho heavy casualties suffered by the Americans, despite their late entry into the world conflict. Deaths among the American forces totalled 115,(1(10, compared, for instance, with 5(1,(525 deaths suffered among the Canadian forces, -10,330 among the Australians, 10,13(1 among the New Zealand forcf... 8832 in tho case of Smith Africa, Newfoundland, and other colonies, and 01,308 in the ease of India. Taking the British Empire and the allied and associated countries, according to the published figures America’s death roll was only exceeded by Great Britain, France, Italy. Roumania and Serbia.

Take again the wounded. America’s wounded totalled 205,(190, compared with Canada 149,732, Australia 152,171, New Zealand 40,729, South Africa, Newfoundland, anil other colonies 11,113, India 70,819. Taking again the British Empire and the allied and associated countries the statistics show that America’s list of wounded was only exceeded by Great Britain, France, and Italy. There are no records in the case of France or Roumanin, but their fighting, of t course, leaves it clear that in both eases America’s casualties were exceeded.