The casualties of the British Army in the war are
officially announced to have been 3,049,991, of whom 658,704 were killed. Unhappily these tremendous figures do not represent the total losses. Three hundred and sixty thousand officers and men are "missing." Half of these must, we fear, be counted as dead. Yet, again, there are the losses in the Navy and in the Merchant Service, as well as in the fishing fleets. Altogether nearly a million British lives have been lost. It is an appallingly high price to pay for freedom ; but we well know that, looking back on the last four tarrible years, the British race would say, not only that it could not have acted otherwise, but that it would take exactly the same decision if the work had to be done again. At the same time, recognizing what modern war means, it solemnly and devoutly intends that, so far
as it can secure the future, such a thing shall never recur. Justice to the world means great firmness in dealing with Germany. Let us hope that the German casualties will oonvey their lesson to the makers of war. A Berlin telegram states that Germany's losses in the war amount to .1,580,000 killed, 260,000 missing, 490,000 prisoners, and 4,000,000 wounded.
