BRITAIN’S MIGHTY EFFORT.
COLOSSAL FIGURES. Received 10.35. LONDON, March 26. The immense military effort by Britain is strikingly illustrated in the Army Appropriation Account for 1916, showing a total net expenditure on the Army of £543,187,548. This amount includes pay, £98,157,156; supplies and clothing, £212,966,815; quartering, transport, and remounts, £96,373,107, of which sea transport of troops cost £30,687,382; £5,570,320 was credited to the Indian Government for ordinary expenses of the • Indian Expeditionary forces.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 27 March 1917, Page 5
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73BRITAIN’S MIGHTY EFFORT. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 27 March 1917, Page 5
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