WAR CASUALTIES
AN AMERICAN ESTIMATE DAILY LOSSES OF 150 IN EACH THOUSAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 10. Colonel Love, a United States army officer, addressing an international conference on military medicine and pharmacy here today, said that the American army recommended that provision be made for 150 casualties daily among each thousand infantryman engaged in the next war. Death, he said, would claim 24, 96 would suffer from gunshot wounds and 30 would be gassed. The'figures are based on close studies of war casualty probabilities.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 5
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86WAR CASUALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 5
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