The cost of a European War
What the cost of a European war would be in men and money is very carefully calculated in a book by a Polish publicist, M. Bliokh, which Dr Dillon, in the new number of the " Contemporary •Be view," says in fluenced the Czar to issue his Eirenicon. It is estimated that Europe pays yearly for the maintenance of its fleets and armies thp sum of £225,000,000, and nearly a? much again in the guise of interest on debts contracted for the prosecution of foreign wars. The daily expenditure needed for a oon flicfc in which the five Continental Great Powers were engaged would amount to £4,195,600. Over and above this sum it would be necessary to expend on the families of the soldiera about £189,000. In other words, the annual cost of this European war, exclusive of indirect losses, would, according to the calculations of M. Bliokh and others rercb the fantastic total of £1,747,---120.000.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1898, Page 2
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161The cost of a European War Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1898, Page 2
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