Figures 50,000 Bulgars Dead.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 19, 1912:
Correspondent Says One in Forty of Male Population Has Perished.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 19.— Reviewing the campaign, the Sofia correspondent of The Times estimates that 50,000 men have succumbed to wounds or disease, that is, about one in forty of the whole male population. The significance of this great sacrifice, he says, is scarcely realized in a country which bears its losses with admirable stoicism. There is no list of dead or wounded and nobody asks for it, but as the end is in sight, it will be the duty of the Government to see that the brave peasants, whose graves lie thick in the fields of Thrace, shall not have died in vain. Nothing less than the total extinction of Turkish rule in Europe, Bulgarians say, can be accepted.
    Referring to the cholera, the correspondent says that the Bulgarian troops are abundantly supplied with Rakia spirit made from the grapes at Kirk-Kilesseh, which is regarded as effective in the prevention of cholera.