COST OF THE WAR.
ROME STAGGERING FIGURES. LONDON, Marach Edgar Crammond, in an address to the Royal Statistical Society, said that the cost of the war was nine thousand millions sterling per year. Belgium’s loss was 52G millions, including 250 millions by the destruction of property. The year’s war cost Germany 2,775 millions, including 95S millions decreased production and 879 millions as the capitalised value of human life, compared with the cost to Britain of .1,258 millions. The war indemnity required to compensate the victors would be 4500 millions sterling.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 166, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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90COST OF THE WAR. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 166, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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