THE COST OF THE WAR.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19785, 25 November 1929, Page 13

THE COST OF THE WAR.

, to ret istTvft o» Tn run. | >;r, }{<x'«;tuly th«? Commonwealth j v .If ('aptaia C. K. Bean, «taied th'it the cafii'rtl «■ o*t ot the war f \ * wrl! ov r HiVC»»»,ii,«>.i>Xithat | nor*: than I<».«,*».<»j*j ncn wero killed { , ftrrtrtn. ami ihnt nr.-' the njr an- | ! : * '"J**r .'APJ bad died trom ««r | 1 j I i wond*r I>«jW rr.any jnrople rwltit' j prodigi-m-iti" m ct thesw figures; j * hu'h -.un lv, to use a harku»'ved pi»r.m\ "a|»-3k m»re eloquently than I Invested at i p<?r cent., I I Htj.wft.lJOi.UtX) would earn in GT> days '-" civ* if 'it to p.iv a national dc'>t n( f d-r«t.-d to charity i: ! . i vraM,.- £"3» to l>«* presented Ij (» . > .»f*o O, popul 1 lion of •_"•:*'*> lrtilr>{»*** or £1 per day to l-e ic: von I r ii-ariy • - year* to ca< it uiTrdn-r ■ t nopal «t ioi tci'ial to that ot Nr.w /.• .i'ar-.-! namely, 1,107.0 m). Allowing r< rnpound .it 4 p«*r rrnt. p* i annum. £ 1 *Jl>.»»X> would h.3t<> to '>*.* i" v» % *t* '1 fur '2OO years to produce £ tilt) I »Vi> Coniine now to the human .vieriiice. fhi<. t» put down by the statistician as •jn iim.OO n<« n, »hi' h to take their avtrapo h. i«ht a* ■">(• *ui. represents a !m#» ot '2.7 the equatorial circumference of *.h* earth. 7!>_'»> mil***, U-tins terriol«> i;oe>t of the war ir wealth and in lit>. thus stated .-hove in vartoui rami meal tci n;« there ii tlw unmr.'>*ur>.-d wt in pain ar.d in snfF«*ri«(;. in mental anguith. iri spiritual mi««ry. and in deflation of th»- itunian heart.—Yours. %S< - ., NO MORE WAR. November l?tb, I