POWERS NOW AT WAR.
ELEVEN NATIONS INVOLVED. POSSIBLE PARTICIPANTS. The following table shows the nations now engaged in the present great war, the dates on which they declared war, and an estimate of the population of each. A rough calculation by means of these figures indicates that no less than 500,000,000 people are all'ected by ihe war, excluding the non-European population of the British Empire:
War Nation ...Population Declared Servia 3,000,000 July 28, Lilt Russia 171,000,000 Aug. 1,11)14 Belgium .... 7,500,000 Aug. 3, 1014 France 40,000,000 Aug. 3, 1!)J4 British Empire 58,000,000 Aug. 4.1014 Montenegro . 510,000 Aug. 8, Hill Japan 33,000,000 Aug. 23, 1(114 Italy 35,000,000 May 24, 1013 AustriaHungary .. 40,000,000 .Tilly 28, 1014 Germany ... 05.000,000 Aug. 1, 101-1 Turkey 21,000,000 Nov, 2,1014 Amongst other nations which may abandon their neutrality arc Greece, lioiimania, and Bulgaria. Greece is in strong sympathy with the Allies, but the mutual jealousies of the Balkan Stalls and a confused political situation have frustrated her efforts to reform the Balkan League and add its armies to those of the Allies.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1915, Page 9
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174POWERS NOW AT WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1915, Page 9
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