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*y* ? ti V *4? *i?"A?'A? Si? ?i? *i~ 'if !J? ! J? !]; !? jj Mul ? ** < i* ? * *i 1 II :: o^v/u 11 with ;; :? * * ? 1 a ? I f ? a ? V 1 11 I righ jg prio rj G. I TELEPHONE f f &#$:! ili :! MORTALITY IN WAR. 25 to 1 Chance to Be Alive at End of First Year at Front. The American ? soldier in France has 25 chances to be alive at the end of the first year's service at the . front, td one of being dead. Four men out of every hundred who reach the firing line will be killed in on6 year's time. Thic fijm ra skives the lie to the de- , liberate misstatements circulated in print and word of mouth by German agents or pacifists. The order of danger in the various : branches of the army Is: 1?Medical and sanitary service. 2?Engineers, miners and sappers. 3?Infantry. 4?Artillery. 5?Aviation. The doctors have the most dangerous job, the airmen the safest. Cavf airy is no longer used, unless as in- | fantry. v These yarns about the average life of an officer at the front being less j than two weeks, of a surgeon less than a month, are of a piece with j the fantastic stories of men being; drugged to make them fight, or of ; the French army refusing to fight, circulated at the outbreak of the war in crank and anarchist circles. The war college figures and esti- j mates indicate the total loss in one I year of all the belligerents as about; four per cent killed in action, died , of wounds and died of disease. These figures compiled from casualty lists obtained both from the allies and the central powers are prob-! ably too high for the fighting on the western front, where the arts of protection, cover, trenching and barrage fire cut down the number of slain. The average is fattened by the heavy losses on the Russian front, where the officers of the czar fre quentlv drove unarmed men to storm German trenches, enfilading their own troops in the rear with machine gun fire to force them forward. The estimate also includes the terribly heavy losses of the first months of the war on the western front when the fighting was in the opea* and large masses of men were frequently caught by machine guns or subjected to direct sharpnel bombardment. There is reason to believe the western front losses were twice as heavy earlier in the war as they are today. This conclusion is supported by fig es ar have just receiv i in Bamberg. l any kind of an THE also have on h t. Come to see 5. FRA '49 ft tT< 0% tTt % ?? % % % %*% ?Tt >?< >Y< % ?4? ?4* *4* ?4? W *4* *4* *4< SEVENTEEN MISSING. \ ., , Privates in Thick of Battle Whe^ Engineers Helped Turn Hans. I Washington, Dec. 16.?Seventeen enlisted men of the United States engineering corps were reported missing in action by Gen. Pershing in a dispatch to the War Depaitment. They were missing on November SO, the day of the German turning move-1 ment at Cambrai, and are believed to have fallen into the hands of the ' Germans while fighting valiantly with the engineer contingent which distinguished itself helping the British to check the attack. The missing men consisted of j Sergt. Paul M. Sweenson and Cor- j poral Frank Upton, both of New j York, and fifteen privates, all of New j York, New Jersey and the New England States. ures of insurance companies which insured Canadian regiments and the records of German trade unions and professional societies. Figures from the records of a German typographical union, a teachers' society and a Berlin bar association reveal early losses as high as 8 per cent., later reduced by half. Death by diesase at the front is * Af less likely than at norne m uuc peace, thanks to fresh air, hard work and good food. Death by disease at the front is very rare owing to the skill of the surgeons. About 18 per cent, of the American armies will be wounded. This is less than one chance to five, or five chances of coming out with a whole skin against one chance of a punc! ture. ! Of the wounded 40 per cent, re| cover completely and return to the fight. About 40 per cent, are patched up so they can do work behind the lines, such as policing, construction work and garrison depots. About 20 per cent, are permanently incapacitated for military service, but over half of these are able to do light work in civilian life. As the war has gone on and all the new weapons like gas and flame projectors have been matched by new defensive measures, the percentage of ; losses has gone down steadily. It has i now reached about the same propor tions as the losses of the civil war, and the tendency is still downward. ?L. H. Leech, in Charlotte Observer. | Read The Herald $1.J0 the year. id H< . j _ A: /i eu ?1 MlipillClll V I now have on 1: imal you wish. PRICE and a nice stoc! j me if you war lNK f I < JUST PLAIN IRON BEST FOP. BLOOD AND COSTS LESS Twelve Ounces Acid Iron Mineral Costs About a Dollar and Goes Farther.?Is Stronger, Too. NATURAL IRON, HIGHLY CONCENTRATED IS BEST. Instead of taking a pill or a dose of some prepared remedy which perhaps contains alcohol or a blasting cathartic you don't need, why not get a bottle of medicinal Acid Iron Mineral, a highly concentrated natural iron, testing over 10 degrees specific gravity. A bottle of Acid Iron Mineral costing a dollar contains twelve ounces of strong, highly concentrated, natural medicinal iron. So powerful, though harmless that a few drops in a glass of water makes a dose. 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