WHAT WAR COSTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 199, 11 January 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHAT WAR COSTS

Jllitiiiiimtiiijr- eoiieei-niiig the. cost of war in blood and l.ivasiir° are contained in a pnl.ficati<m of the American Peace Society. It states that ■- One big cannon shot. -One big cannon shot costs c;sld (including deterioration of weapon I; three and o:ie-third years of a working man's wage; live and one-third years of a female school teacher's salary; as much as a. working man's hoiv«c : . as much as ;\ college edit" cation at 1:8.1 jx-v year. ()ne Dreadnought rust cost £2,J(1(1.(100. or n s U m e l( ual to the co-.f of lillll locdliiollvcs at £lllllll each: costs £-2(10,0(10 per year to maintain; its life. 10 to U years, then the oe tap-pile. Unman > i a,'(-ilive.- Probably 1,1.000.001),Ot»l lives sacrificed in wars 'since the beginning of authentic history; 0 r as many as all the people who have lived on earth during the ' m t (MO years; more, than 14,(1110,1)00 slain. 1 in war during .the l!)th century i tlieji" wei-ei a Mi-bodied., The armed of Europe for the last 3T years Mi eostlvt least £22,200,. .{IOO,OOO, ,' £ ...':. ''fat