Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-24
MONEYCOST OF WAR
TOLD In BILLIONS
Careful Compilation Shows Expend'
itures for Armies Now Reaches
FOrty-Five Millions Daily,
ECONOMIC LOSS NOT YET ADDED

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.)
THE HAGUE. Jan. 2s.--An exhaustive
study OF the cost OF the European war
has just appeared In the Berlin vor-
waerts, q socialist newspaper
The military expenditures OF the Brit
ish empire are given as about 81 go. 900
per day, or 1851, 900 UP TO january 1.
The cost OF the war 10 France UP to Dc
comber 10, 1914, is given as Sl.2SS. 800. 900.
or, difference In time considered, more
than twice the amount spent by Great
britain.
Taking the Russian expenditures TO No
Nember 10 as a basis, it is shown that the
Russian campaign has so far cost 80 800
900 per day, or $3.50, oOo,o0O up to Janu-
ary l. The expenditures Of the Belgian,
Scrvian and Japanese governments are
given as about t1.6OoO,O00 per day. or,
rounjly. $500 900 up 20 January /.
The figures also show that II costs the
allies S2O5 per day to keep a man in the
field
some AEgreEate EestimRtes.
TIE Following is given by the Vor-
watrts as a table of expenditures made
Ivy the governments OF the triple entente
and their allies:
WAT Cost 1OtHl 10
Country Per Day. jan l.
Great Britain ......A $4,000 s 6S7, 10000
Franco .,............, 9,9l2,0O ,4s6. $4,000
dsussla ;..''''''''''' ssV0V 49, $1,000 - ~
Their allies ......... 10000 2AOOOO,OOO
No detailed amounts are given in rela,-
ton TO the cost Of the war 10 Germany
and Austro-Hungary. The statement is
made, however. that the cost for the two
is s?l.Od0.0OO per day. or 50, 100. 900 up to
January 1.
Nddiug expenditures Of all the nations
at war. tho daily total Is about s45, eS2, 900,
and the total up to January $6sS4, 800. 600.
Deductions for France.
il Is pointed out by the VorwRerts that
from the French total exr - lures so
far made must be tNen J e following
loans: To Belgium, $50. 900 90; to Servia,
SIG, 900 600; to Greece. $4,000, 900; and to Mon
tenegro. 100000: or a total OF 5000 900,
which would make the amount spent by
the French government in military opera
tions $l.n6, 1900 by the close of 1914.
For year the European war would
on THIS basis cost the tremendous sum of
N6.67b. 10000. Making an allowance for
the cost of mobilization, but keeping IN
mind that the sending Of new troops into
the field is in effect lesser phase Of
mobilization. It will stIl be found that
at the end of a year the powers at war
would have spent at least $16,5O0, 10000
other Costs Not Concluded.
In this sum are not included the eco
nomic losses of the countries, nor the
damage done to property in the various
military terrainS. The loss to Belgium
from the destruction OF property is esti-
mated at $13S.0oo,o Oo while the damage
sustained by East Prussia is said to be
roundly SSS,oOO.0O0. No reliable estimates
on the property losses in Poland Galicia,
SlaYonia, servia, Bosnia, Alsace and east
ei1i France have so far been obtain.
able, but the impression prevaiN that to.
gcther this would be no less than 81, 4Oo,-
900. co.,
To the cost of the European war must
also be added the mobilization expendi-
lures OF Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Nor
way, Switzerland. italy, Spain, Portugal,
Roumania and Bulgaria; the cost Of tho
Turkish operations; the losses In naval
craft, deterioration OF war materials, and
the economic losses due to a general dis
turhance Of the worlds commercial rela-
tons.