RUSSIAN LOSSES DURING THE WAR.

Kumara Times, Issue 511, 17 May 1878, Page 2

RUSSIAN LOSSES DURING THE WAR.

Official returns state that ‘the Suafc i sian losses in killed and wounded dur- ; mg the late officers and men. Among these, were ten generals killed and eleven wounded. One Prince of the -Imperial fhmilyand thirty-four members ofthe higher ho- . hihty of Russia fell oh th e ‘ field of battle. Of the" wounded are ! already perfectly recovered, andriO.OOO more will it is a|)le to leave the hospitals during the next few weeks. 121 men were prisoners in the hands ' of the Turks when’ the armistice W as concluded.; The proportion of killed and wounded; to the total -

number engaged was very large; one out of every six men who went into action being either injured or left dead on the field of battle. In the great actions of the late Franco-German war the proportion of killed and wounded to men engaged was very nearly the same; both one-sixth in the battles of Worth and Spicheren, ; and one-eight in the battle of Vionville or Mars-la-Tour. At Gravelotte the proportion was only one-eleventh, and at Weissemberg one-twelfth. In some of the oarlier battles of the present century, however, the losses were far heavier in proportion to the numbers engaged ; amounting to one-third of the entire forces engaged at Salamanca, Borodino, •and Eylau, to one-fourth *at Marengo, and to one-fifth at Friedland. Further, the returns show that one out of every eleven wounded men received into the Russian hospitals died from the effects of the injuries received. During the whole campaign, it is added, only two men were punished with death; one for the crime of desertion, the other for robbery, accompanied with violence. On the other hand, 20,000 rewards were given in the form of decorations, promotions, or awards of money ; the Bth corps, which so long held and defended the Schipka Pass,- receiving the greatest proportion. —Home News.