THE COST OF WAR.
Russia's weekly expenditure of £1,100,000 on the war with Japan is by no means extraordinary.
Our own war in South Africa, the bill for which totalled the respectable sum of £.212.000,000, worked out at £1,500,000 a week. The total cost of the Crimean War was about £313,000,000. Of this Russia paid £112,000,000 ; France, £93,000,000 and Great Britain £78,000,000, the weekly expenditure for the three countries being—Russia, £1,100,000; France, £900,000 ; and Great Britain, £700,000. America's successful struggle for independence cost the mother country £121,000,000, or just under £1,000,000 a week. France, however, has had to foot the heaviest weekly war bill on record, the total cost of her terrible conflict with Germany being the enormous sum of £316,000,000, or over £7,000,000 a week. The Napoleonic wars which ended at Waterloo were comparatively cheap for France, seeing that the total bill only amounted to £255,000.000, while that of Great Britain, including the financing of many little Powers in their struggle against the Emperor, amounted to £831.000,000.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1929, 20 March 1905, Page 2
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