WAR'S COST TO FRANCE
M Baoal Peret, president of the Bndge* Committee of the Chamber, writing in tho Paiis ' Journal,' gives the approximate cost of the -max to tho principal belligerent States. Ho states that, aocordirur to tbe French Budget, France's debt js about 147 milliards of francs (£6.126,000.000) for extraordinary military and civil expenditure, including the new Public Debt. Ho adds that the total cost of the w*r trill bo greater than this, because one must not omit to include tb* valna of damages inonrned, amotunting to over th* interest on the country's debt, •vAJdi now exceeds £4,50Q,0QG,00Q, aad jpeadons
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Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 9
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101WAR'S COST TO FRANCE Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 9
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