The Cost of a European War.
What the cost of a European war ! would be in men and money is very carefallly calculated in a book by a Polish publicist, M. Bliokb, which Dr Dillon, in the new number of the Contemporary Review, says infill* j ;; ,» enced the Czir to issue his Eirenicon, j i It is estimated that Europe pays . yearly for the maintenance of its fleets and armies the sum of £225,---000,0)0, and nearly as much again in the guise of interest on debts con« : j tractcd for the prosecution of foreign wars. The daily expenditure needed for a conflict in wbich tha fiva Con- * tinental Great Powers were engaged would amount to £4,195,600. Over and above this sum it would ba necessary to expend on tbe families of the soldiers about £193,000. Io othor words, the annual cost of this European war, exclusive of indirect losses, would, according to the calculations of M. Bliokh and others, reach the fantastic total of £1,747,120,000. ■—-————■ »— — — , mm m»
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Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1899, Page 2
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167The Cost of a European War. Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1899, Page 2
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