THE WAR'S COST.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1916, Page 5

THE WAR'S COST.

TUL DRI- AIV.TL T'RKE OF. BLOOD. ' In the N'irieUvuth Century for Sep'. tember, Mr. Cramnmnd write-; an ari tide, congested with figures showing the cost of the |.re-cni w war. At fa end of the first year, he says, "the Central Powers find themselves in the ioi* loing position: (a) They have ofcupioj 70,000 square miles of enemy territory; (h) they have captured 7000 to 8000) guns and 2000 to 3000 machine guns; (o) they claim to have captured l,«i)p00 prisoners of war (in all probability a great number of civilians are included in this total); (d) they have Inflicted losses upon the enemy aggregating about ri.SUO.OOO men, including prisoners ol war.

'•On the other hand, the Central Powers (n) have lost in Killed, wounded nnl prisoners at leas* ">,700,00 nnjn; (b) tliey have lost the greater part of thoir eolonial empire, aggregating 1,000,000 square miles;,, (e) they have lost tlieil entire oversea' commerce. '•We know the distress and agony of mind eansed in o\ir own immediate circles by the death and maiming of our loved ones. We also know that the Bri* tisli losses up to July 18 'aggregated 320,805. Allowing for the dUFercneo between the population of the German Empire and that of the United Kingdom with the Overseas Dominions, the German losses are about time; an large as the British. Uis impw s ".-l9 to believe that these frightful not having a terrifying effect, upo<s the mind of the Herman people T.ux. urn learning In blood and in teura (hat n-»r is bad businc" I,> addition to \M loss of 3.000.000 men and the destruction of her colon'al-empire, Germany tins pretty Well used up the war material accumulated during the past forty years. She ha,s added already £1,000,000003 tor her national debt. She has arotivd against hertlie active and abiding hatred, so far a« this generation is eoncorned, of nearly one-third of the neo* plo of the world." This is a sufficiently alarm . wary; but .Mr. C'rammond goes o to give in more exact detail the co- in men and money of the first ypar of the war: "In order to s'.u: ■ : .'\i< «ii,,-. md destruction which Prussian 'nilitu mm has already brought upon the world I have prepared the two following tables:

Thfi direct nnd indirect fnst of th» war from July 31, 1014, to July 31 1015, represented in pounds sterling, run. to figures that are almost beyond the eotu. preliension of the average mini; but they are estimated by the writer, as follows, in millions: AM.Ii-.u .'ii'ii IiUS Power A 11. Tots' France 1070' 025 1701 Russia 1104 400 1504 Italv 2i>3 200 453 British Kmpire .. 1000 250 1250 r.v.w a IV Total Aiintria.|(iin::;i,-y :<v:7 000 1097 Germany 2040 740 2750 A covins diivoi, HifHv.i.iM'iit e.\i..'iidiliiiv, destruction of property and capitalised value of loss of human life. B <overs loss of production and other losses. So thai. Lhu -i.ui' :c r ..--.-:,i.iu(j tin- losses of all the combatants, read tlm?: Dirivl C, v,.)!!HH'llf I.\!)C!i--ilitnu. '.... iia.iM.-lOO.OQO Destruction of property.. 010,000,000 Value of human life .'... 2.341,000.000' Production and other' losses r,.;.|.\fli).>.lH)o Total low. £0,012,400,000 missing and prisoners, 2,000 O.W. Total, 3,500,000. l'Yii"-e '.''' '. -ton O'lil: -vomi.lel massing and prisoners. 1,00:1.000. Total 1,'400,000.

Croat llii:.! - !'. a Kt-.l i,,-: ■:;■ -i i. Ed, prisoner's and missing. 200, IS::. Total, 320,805. Belgium ~K;i'r.l. 47.<"'" : wounded, prisoners and misaiii", 200,000. Total, 247,000. Serbia.-Killed, 01.000: wounded, misoners and missing, 152 000. Total, 210,000. Italy Killed and wounded, M.OOO. Allies' total looses-.- Killed. 1.180,71,3; wounded, prisoners and mining 4,212.182. Grand total, 5,752,875. ' CENTRAL POWERS. Oenuany.—Killed, PM.OfIO; wounded, missing and prisoners, 2,200,000. Total, 3,100,000. Austria • Hungary. Killed, 000,000-, « minded, missing and prisoner* 1,900,« 000. Total, 2,500,000. Turkey.—Killed, 4fi,000 ; wounded/ missing and prisoners. 130,000. Total, 176,000. Central Towers' total feosea.-Killed, 1,540,000; wounded, missing and prisoners, 4,230,000. Total., 5,776,000. The grand losses in men in the \nnf for the twelve months, then, were: Killed v 3,026,713 Missing and prisoners .. 2,978,188 Wauwfed •»«*,«».•<.. 5,7e5,m Total mWrr.wv..., 11,528,809 "In twelve months," says Mr, Crammond, "Prussian militarism has caused the death or maiming of nearly 9,000,000 of men and the destruction of about ■<IO,<V:UKIO.OOO of tl (':•!".'-.'eaUh