WHAT WARS COST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 11 August 1916, Page 7

WHAT WARS COST.

Assuming that the estimate «>' the war's total cost hitherto—teu thousand billion pounds—is near enough correct, sonic interesting comparisons are possible. The most expensive ol pre ions wars was American civil war, which is estimated to have cost tlie northern Stales 940 and the southern State.-. 100 millions—a total ol' 1400 millions. So that the present war has already cost more than seven times as nv.i h as the most costlj 'previous wars. And every day the I outlays :iv l'i' m g n?. liut a better idea can be got by carrying the comparison a little farther; The nexl j most expensive war was the Crimean, I which cost -310 million pounds. Tin. present war lias cost about 30 times as much as that. It has cost 33 times as much as the Franco-Prussian war, 47 times as much as the Boer war cost Britain, 40 times as much as the Balkan war. and almost 40 times as much as the war between Russia and Japan.