The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-08-19

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| had much nearer 100000 than
100000 men permanently out Of
the field. Estimates of the total cas-
uailties run from 100000 TO S,000.-
900 with the former figure probably
conservative.
The cost in money runs to a SINH
| larly huge total. Great Britain is
now spending about SIS, 100000 a
day on the war. according to Premier
Asuuith. Albert Metin, general bud
get reporter of the French chamber
of deputies. calculates the war is
costing France $4,000 minute, or
s-4,4O0, 1000 a day. William Michae-
lis recently estimated the daily cost
/ to Germany at SS,250.000, saying
forty days of this war cost as much
as the whole Franco-Prussian war
of 1901. In March DR.. Karl Helf-
ferich. secretary of the imperial
treasury of Germany, said the war
was costing all belligerents $780,
100000 a week.
On the basis of DR.. Helfferich S
estimate, the first year of the war
cost the stupendous sum of S11 800
600, 600. Mr.. Michaelis puts the fig
ure at fifteen billions of dollars. not
including Italy's expenditures, sum
more than so per cent. greater than
the gold production of the world dur
| ing the last five hundred years. 9th
er estimates run still higher, to twen-
ty billion dollars or more.
In addition to the money eXpend-
ed directly on the war the loss in de-
struction of property on land and sea
has run high into millions. Great
losses are being occasioned by the
cessation or curtailment of many
forms of productive industry. The
energies of the world have been
largely diverted to making war. Fac
tories of all sorts have been turned
over to the making of war munitions,
men taken from mill and field, to be
replaced by women, old men and
children. Economists assert that
for generations to come the world
will feel the effect Of the huge losses
| in the burden of taxation and other
wise, and socialists make conflicting
predictions as to its normal, physl-
cal and psychological effect on gener-
ations living and to come.
Neutrals as we'll as belligerents
have been affected. The financial
stringency which followed the out
break of war was worldwide. The
United States, in common with other
neutrals, has been confronted with
the threatened abrldgement of its
rights, particularly at sea, and has
sent notes of remonstrance to Eng
LAND and Germany, the complications
with the latter country following the
sinking of the Lusitania giving es-
pecial concern.
The war has been attended with
many unexpected features, one OF
which is its protraction. 1t had been
believed that such a struggle would
be of comparatively short duration,
on account of the cost and loss OF
| life it would entail. At the outset
it was commonly said that within
LESS than a year the nations involved
would be compelled to seek peace
through financial exhaustion, if for
no other reason. While each side
has won it's victories, no final results
have been reached in any of the
campaigns, with few minor eXcep-
tons of the lesser operations in dis
tant colonies. Over the greater part
of the Franco-Belgian front the op-
posing millions are facing each other
in the same positions as last Septem-
Der. Movements on the eastern front
have been wider, but with no signs
of an approaching decision.
The German plan is generally as
sumed to have been to deal first with
France in the early weeks Of the war.
before the Russian army, slower to
mobilize. was able to present Sc
rious menace, and then to turn on
Russia. The fierce resistance Of Bel
GUM and the unexpectedly quick
mobilization of both the French and
Russian armies prevented the full
fruition of this plan. Nevertheless,
Germany has been able to hold her
own on both the eastern and west
ern fronts.
In reality the struggle of the elev-
en- nations is divided into number
of separate wars. related to each
other in only a general way. The
whole field of military operations
may be summarized as follows:
In France and Belgium Germany
is battling with Great Britain,