WHAT WAR MEANS.
The Balkan War has given this generation of Europeans some idea of what war means in detail. A Bavarian newspaper, an organ of the Catholic Centre Party, presents its readers with a record of the wars of the last fifty years. Under a scries of pictures of fallen soldiers on the battlefield it I gives the number of killed in each great war of the past half century, with the strange exception of the Boer War. Here is the record;— Crimean War ... ... 750,000 Italian War of 1859-GO ... 45,030 American Civil War, 1861-65 800,030: Danish War of 1864 ... 8,000 Austro-Prussian War of 1866 45,000 Franco-German War ... 215,000 Rnsso-Turkish War ... 250,000 Russo-Japanese War ... 200,000 These figures show that no less than 2,313,000 men were killed in these wars.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 4
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129WHAT WAR MEANS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 4
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