Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1915-02-04
EXPENDITURE OF
WAR STAGGERING
BRITISH EMPIRE SPENDING
ABOUT FOUR AND QUARTER
MILLIONS DAILY
FRANCE TWICE As MUCH
Up To The Present Time sixteen
and a Half Billions Have Been
Expended Outside of Econ
omiC Losses

b. Associated Pross
THE HAGUE. Feb. 3-An sxhaus-
tive study Of the cost of the Euro
pean war has just appeared in the
Berlin vorvaerts, a socialist news
paper
The military expenditures OF the
British Empire are given as about
s4,250.00O per day or S637,500,0Q0
up 70 January l. The cost OF the
war 10 France up 20 December 10,
1914. IS given as Sl.28S, S,2OO.eg0 or,
difference In time considered, more
than twice the amount spent by
Great Britain.
Taking the Russian expenditures
to November Is as a basis. II Is
shown that the Russian campaign
has so far cost $9.200,000 per day
or $3.50, 900. geo up 10 January !.
The expenditures of the Belgian,
Seryian and japanese governments
are given as about si,6o0.o0o per
day or roundly s240,000.000 up to
January l.
The following Is given by the
Vorwaerts as table OF expenditures
made by the governments Of the
Triple Entente and their Allies
Great Britain, war cost per day.
s4250.O00. total to January |,
S637.500. 900
France. war cost per day. S9,9l2-
00O total to January /, 1885,
100000
Russia, war cost per day, $4,000
900. total to January !, sl.3S0, ,00O-
000
Their Allies, war cost per day,
sl,600.000 total to January /,
$4,000. 900.
No detailed amounts are given in
relation TO the cost OF the war TO
Germany and Austro-Hungary The
statement Is made, however, fhat
the cost for the two Is s2l GOO, ,00O
per day, or $3.50. 100000 up To
January |.
Adding TO expenditures of all the
nations al war. the daily total Il
about s45.s26. 200. and tne Total W
TO January /. t6,s94,300.000.
II Is pointed out by the Vorwaert'
that from the French total expendi
lures SO far made must be taken th'
following loans; To Belgium, $50
OOO. 600. to Servia. $4,000 goo; e
Greece S4,000.000 and TO Montere
gro. 100000 or total OF S7ol0o.
OOO which would make IN" amoun
spent bv the French government u
military operations ilb'oV,o'
by the close of 1914.
For a year the European va
would on this basis cost the tremen
don. sum OF S16.676.13o,000. max
inc an allowance for the cost o
mobilization. but keeping in mini
that tho sending OF new troops int
the field is in effect lesser phase o
mobilizatiou. II will still BE- foun'
that Al the end NJ the year the pow
ers al war would have spent at leas
s16.50o. 100000
In this sum are not included th
economic losses Of the countries. no
the damage done 20 property 10 M
various military terraius Tho los
IN polrium from the destruction ~
nropertv is estimated at &l33,o0o
400 while tho damages sustained b
Pas, Prussia are said 20 be roundl
Sss 0OO. GOO No reliable estimate
on tho property losses IN Poland
Calirla Slavouia. Servia, Bosnia
Alsace and Eastern France, have 81
far been obtaluablc but the impre'
sion prevails that toga her TN
would be no less than, &lfoo,ooo
000
To the cost OF the European va
mus, also be added the mobilizatio
expenditure of Halland. Denmark
sweden Norway, switzerland, ltall
Spain. Portugal Roumania, Bulg'
ria. the cost OF the Turkish opera
tons. the losses In naval craft. Dc
,erlora,ion Of war materials. and N
economic losses due 10 general dh
turbance OF the world commercii
relations.