TOLL OF LIVES
FIGURES OF TWO WARS IN PROGRESS TERRIBLE RECORD OF DEATH & SUFFERING. MANY KILLED IN AIR RAIDS. LONDON, April 3„ The toll of two wars in human lives is indicated in figures received from Tokio and Barcelona, which do not take account of Chinese military losses or the unknown extent of the suffering of the peoples of China, Japan and Spain. An Army spokesman in Tokio gives the number of Japanese soldiers killed in North and Central China as 20,000 but Hankow claims that 280,000 Japanese have been killed since last year.
The British United Press Barcelona corespondent states that, according to figures checked with official sources, about 207,000 have perished and 220,000 have been crippled or wounded in Republican Spain alone. . Property valued at £20,000,000 has been destroyed. Those who perished include 75,000 killed in action and 30,000 who died from wounds received in action, and 17,500 killed and 1500 who died of wounds received in air raids and bombardments.
The message includes, without explanation “Executed the behind lines, 85,000.”
It is estimated that those wounded in action number 160,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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