The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-24
ALLIES SPENDING ABOUT $25..
100000 PER DAY, WHILE COST TO
AusTRo-HuNGARY AND GER
MANY IS s21,ooo,ooo DAILY.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS


The Hague, Jan. 2s.-An exhaustive
study of the cost Of the European war
has just appeared in the Berlin Vor-
waerts. a socialist newspaper.
The military expenditures OF the
British empire are given as about
s4,25o,ooo per day or sss7, 100000 UP to
January first. The cost of the war to
France up to December 10, 1914, is
given as s1,2ss 200, 900 or, difference
In time considered. more than twice
the amount spent by Great Britain.
Taking the Russian expenditures to
November Is as basis, 1t is shown
that the Russian expenditures to No
yeu1ber Is as q basis, It is shown
that the Russian campaign has so far
cost Ss,20O,0o0 per day or 1880, 000,-
600 up to January first. The expendi-
lures of the Belgian, Servian and
Japanese governments are given as
about $1,600,000 per~Nd day, or roundly
$240. 00O, 900 up to January first.
The figures also show that it costs
the Allies $2o5 per day to keep a man
in tho field.
The following is given by the Vor-
waerts as a table of expenditures
made 10y the governments of the
triple entente and their allies:
day Total
Country Cost per to Jan. 4.
Great Britain ..$4.25O,O $6s7, 800, 900
France ......... 100000 1886, 500, 900
Russia ..... 100000 1,380,000, 900
Their Allies 49,. 100000 100000
Germany and Austria.
No detailed amounts are given in
relation to the cost of the war to Ger
many and Austro- Hungary. The state
ment is made, however, that the cost
for the two is s21,0O0,O00 per day. or
SIS, 100, 900, 900 up to January first.
Adding to expenditures Of all the
nations at war, the daily total is about
$45. 962, 900 and the total up to January
first, $6,Ss4,300,0 900.
1t is pointed out by the Vorwaerts
that from the French total expendi-
lures so far made must be taken the
following loans: To Belgium, $4,000,
900; to Servia. $16,000,000; to Greece
81, OO0, 900; and to Montenegro, 800, 900
or total of $70,100,000, which would
make the amount spent by the French
government in military operations 81
416, 10000 by the close of 1914.
For a year the European war would
or this basis cost the tremendous sum
of 6,673,130,000. Making an allow
ance 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 vii
still be found that at the end of year
the mowers at war would have spent al
least sic, 500, DOT, 900.
In this sum are not included the
economic losses of the countries, mol
| the damage done to property in the
various military terrains. The loss
| to Belgium from the destruction Of
property is estimated at $lSS, 900
while the damages sustained by East
Prussia are said to be roundly $SS,000,'
| 600. No reliable estimates on the
property losses in Poland. Galicia
Slavonia, Servia, Bosnia, Alsace ant
Eastern France, have so far been OBJ
| tainable, but the impression prevail!
| that together this would be no les!
| than $1,4oO, 100000.
To the cost of the European wal
must also De added the mobilization
expenditures of Holland Denmark
/ Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Italy
spain, Portugal. Roumania, Bulgaria
the cost Of the Turkish operations; tn,
| losses in naval craft, deterioration o
/ war marterielle, and the economic
losses due to a general disturbance o
the worlds commercial relations.