Of these there has been a continual waste from the outset by sickness, desertions, capture, and the casualties of war.

Public authorities have generally taken account of the number of their own men who have been wounded and killed in battle, and of the casualties in the opposing armies.

They opened fire from a barrack near the Paris entrance and a sharp engagement followed which lasted several hours, with casualties on both sides.

4,894 Estimated casualties among the missing . . . .

There were also counter-attacks launched against the 5th Mounted Brigade, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, and the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, but these were likewise beaten off with considerable casualties to the enemy.

That is why it is possible to drink your morning coffee without nausea for it, over the head-lines of forty thousand casualties at Ypres, but to push back abruptly at a three-line notice of little Tony's, your corner bootblack's, fatal dive before a street-car.

Our casualties from November 28 to December 10these figures include the heavy fighting about Tahta, Foka, and Nebi Samwil prior to the XXth Corps' attack on the Jerusalem defenceswere: officers, 21 killed, 64 wounded, 3 missing; other ranks, 247 killed, 1163 wounded, 169 missing, a total of 1667.

The Division's casualties during the day were 300 killed and wounded.

The total German casualties for the month of October, 1916, reached 199,675 officers and men, of whom 34,231 were killed.

Casualties amongst visitors up to the present, one sick (sugar saturation).

The total German casualties up to June 1 were estimated at nearly 3,000,000; the French at 2,500,000, and the British at 600,000, over 25,000 of the latter being commissioned officers.

Spenser took up his residence on the forfeit lands in Cork; there married, and reared a family which inherited his estate; that he subsequently died in England was as mere a casualty as that by which Swift was born in Ireland.

During the month of July the Greek army had practically wiped out the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 14th Bulgarian Divisions, some 160,000 strong; they had marched 200 miles over terrible mountains; they had taken 12,000 prisoners, 120 guns; and had cheerfully sustained 27,000 casualties out of a total number of 120,000 troops engaged.

When Ludlow had caused his boats to assemble on the spot which the chase had so lately occupied, he saw that the fruitless expedition had been attended by no other casualty than the involuntary abduction of the Patroon of Kinderhook.

"To anybody who's ever piloted a load of casualties through eighteen inches of mud, dodging shell holes and shells on their way to make new holes, in a black rainstorm at midnightthis sort of thing," Jules announced"a hard, smooth road under a clear skyis simple pie.

Now that the new parapet had been heightened and strengthened, the casualties behind it had almost ceased, and the Tearaways were quite reasonably flattering themselves on the worst of the work being done and the worst of the dangers over.

Disease has prevailed to a greater extent than usual, and the sacrifice of human life through casualties by sea and land is without parallel.