The Cordova daily times., 1915-07-31
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF EUROPEAN WAR

declared three days previously by Austria Hungary
 All the great powers of Europe drawn into struggle W e o winch history has heretofore recorded Eleven nations are at war and almost all lands affected directly indirectly Millions of men have been killed wounded carried to captivity hostile countries Billions of dollars nave been expended Thousands of square miles of territory been devastated and hundreds of cities and towns laid waste f1a the world is in mourning for the dead And although the has been progress with unexamped fury Tor year. the result may be summarized in brief % decsve results have been achieved and the end not in sight.
 Determnaon to pursue the decisive ending has been expressed by high officials of all the belgeren nations preparations are being made for winter campaign, and m ac indications from Europe that is likely increase in size rather decrease still an open question whether Bulgaria, Rumania Greece will be drawn in.
 In view of the mmensty of the struggle, previous stand ards count for little in considering the price the world paylng The figures involved little meanng The nations have poured their of men and gold without limit The usual standards of life have been subordnated dsregarded and in cases soca industrial and political activities have been virtually reoganized on mitarsc basis to make all contribute to the supreme necessities of war
 It impossible to obtain statistics of the number of men engaged the casualties and the cost For obvious the size of the armies kept secret of the nations do not consider expeden reveal the number of casuaes in fact Great Britain the only which given out official totals As to the money expended available only partial statistics.
 More than half the population of the world lives in the countries at war The population of the warning countries estimated roughly at 940OOOO and of the countries at peace at 100000 The population of the Entente nations per haps five times great that of their opponents The of men under has been estimated variousy usually in the neighborhood of 200000O0 William Mchaels writing recently n Berlin magazine, put the number of soldiers at 21 770000; for the allies, 128200OO for Germany Austria Hungary and Turkey, 8,950,OOO
 No previous has approached the present whole sale destruction of e This due not only the number of involved but to the terrible efficiency of modern weapons Trench warfare great scae with its deadly charges mining operations and extensive of artefy and hand grenades has contributed to this end Whereas the past has been calculated that the proportion of killed total casualties to to 1O the proportion in trench fare indicated by official British statistics, is about
 The battles the plains of Flanders the Warsaw front the Austro German advance through Gaicia and in the Carpathians attended by frghful slaughter losses the Carpathans along estimated unoiciay 50O000 Along the batteeds from Aras in northwestern France the Belgian whole fields have been covered corpses the time of the German attempt the English Channel the Yer Canal coked with the dead According official British statistics the British army alone has been losing lae killed wounded and missing 2OOO day On June Premier Asquth announced that British casualties the beginning of the (excluding naval of 13549 May 3) amounted to 25869 of which the total of killed was 0,342.
 The losses of Germany France Russia by reason of their larger armies have been far greater The nd Politik of Berlin early in June estimated that than 100000 soldiers the countries with Germany her allies have killed wounded captured Haaire Beoc the English military writer said Germany potential manhood for fighting probably had diminished from all by nearly one half the first year of the war; and asserted conservative estimate that Germany had much nearer AOo00O0 than 30O00OO men permanently out of the field Es mates of the total casualties from 6000000 8OOOOOO with the former figure probably conservative.
 The cost in money to a similarly huge total Great Britain is now spending about $15 100000 day on the war according to Premier Asquith Albert Men general budget reporter the French Chamber of Deputies calculates H costing France $lO minute $4 100000 day William Mchaels recently estimated the daily Germany at B25oOOO saying days of this much whole Franco Prussian war of 187O71 In March Dr. Karl Half erch Secretary of the Imperial Treasury of Germany he war was costing all belgerents $375 100000 week.
 On the basis of Heerichs estimate, the first year he war cost the stupendous of $l1 1500000OO0 Mr. dcae nus inc figure l5 billions of dollars including tav than 50 per cent greater than he gold production the world during the last 800 years Nher estimates run still higher 20 billion dollars more
 Tn addition to the money expended directly war; the ss in destruction property land and has high Ito the millions Great losses being occasoned by the ssaton of curtament forms productive industry
 e energies of the world have been largely diverted making