Totals
"Let us visualize a march of the British dead down Fifth Avenue," suggests a writer in the New York Tribune, in an endeavor to make the staggering casualty lists of the war more real than mere figures can make them. "At daybreak they start, twenty abreast. Until sundown they march... and the next day, and the next and the next. For ten days the British dead pass in review. For eleven days more the French dead file down the 'Avenue of the Allies.' For the Russians it would require the daylight of five weeks more. Two months and a half would be required for the Allied dead to pass a given point. The enemy dead would require more than six weeks." For four months men actually killed in the war, passing steadily twenty abreast—the writer suggests, as a fitting punishment for the late German kaiser, that he be forced to stand at attention and review this stupendous ghastly procession, from the first rank to the last.
Our own casualty lists, continuing to arrive after the signing of the armistice, "have struck the only somber note" in our general thankfulness. The official figures, giving 53,169 dead and 179,625 wounded in a total casualty list of 236,317, are more than double those which semi-official advice from Washington had led the country to expect, and many editors protest against the War Department's policy of suppression. "An explanation seems to be due," declares the New York Evening Post and the St. 