The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-04
REVIEW OF SECOND
 YEAR OF THE WAR
(Continued from Thursday


 Another cause of friction between the United States and the central pow CTS was also removed during the year. Since the outbreak of the war certain propagandists had been busy instigat- ing strikes in intuition factories which had contracts with the allies a in endeavoring in other ways to inter fere with this trade. For his activity in this respect the recall of Dr. Con stantin Dumba, Austrian ambassador was requested by President Wilson in September. The following December for similar reasons the president re. quested the recall of Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen. naval and military attaches respectively to the German embassy. A number of con. victions were obtained in the crim- inal courts in other cases and the propaganda ceased.
 Apart from events in the actual war theatres the most striking event of the year in connection with the con- flict was an uprising in Ireland in April. The outbreak was organized by society known as the Sim Fein, committed to the principle of an inde- pendent Ireland. Bloody fighting took place in Dublin in which hundreds of lives were lost and the heart of the business section destroyed, at a cost of many millions of dollars. The fight ing was sporadic elsewhere in the is- lands. and of minor importance. The revolt was finally crushed and the ringleaders executed. It led, however, to an agitation which resulted in the government preparing temporary home rule bill, which it expects to pass through parliament this fall.
 The day after the outbreak of the rebellion Sir Roger Easement, former ly in the British consular service, was arrested on the west coast of Ireland, where he had attempted to land a cargo of arms sent from Germany. He was tried later for hig treason, sen fenced to death and later hanged
 No definite figures can be given of the cost of the great war in blood and gold but the most reliable estimates present figures so vast that they be- come practically meaningless. In March, 1916, the United States gen eral army staff estimated that the total losses in men to all the belliger- ents since the war began were 13,OO3,- 900.
 AS to the money question figures are more reliable but still vague. They present figures which are so far beyond anything known to information al finance, so impossible of any human comparison that they become little more than a tumble of figures. In March Dr. Karl Helferrich. secretary of the imperial treasury of Germany, estimated that the war was costing all the combatants $375, 100000 a week, or eleven and a half billion dollars a year. William Michaelis, another Ger man financial expert, put the yearly cost at the vaster sum of fifteen bill lions. and other financial authorities gave even higher figures.
 On July IT Reginald Mckenna, Brit ish chancellor of the exchequer, stated in the house of commons that the ex- penditures for Great Britain alone were $3O ,OOO 900 daily He did not say, however, how much of this incredible sum represented war expense.
 Two new nations entered the ranks of the belligerents during the year. On October IS, 1915, Bulgaria threw in her lot with the central powers and on March g, 1916 Germany declared war on Portugal after the republic had seized all German ships interned in her ports.
 The entrance of Bulgaria into the arena was signalized by combined assault on Serbia by Austria, Germany and Bulgaria, which resulted in the complete overwhelming of the hope iessly outnumbered Serbians and the subjugation of their country. The remnants of the Serbian army were driven across the frontier into the wilderness of Albania, whence they were reorganized and re-equipped and later, to the number of about 100000 joined the Franco British forces al Saloniki. The survivors of the Galii poll campaign were also gathered al the Greeian seaport. as well as a large British army from Egypt. This com bined force is estimated at 600.00C M. kxAtx