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“We had every hope of the third year Of reduction,” Colonel Burgess said, “but we must put our disappointment behind us and work all the harder for a reduction this year, never forgetting that we’ are dealing in human lives and not just cold statistics.”
He concluded in saying that all 1972 figures are subject to slight upward revisions due to late reports and deaths of those now carried as injured.
93.9%