COST OF WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16646, 3 September 1914, Page 3

COST OF WAR.

ESTIMATES OF PROFESSOR RICHET. £10,000,000 A DAY. The expenses of general war are thus tabulated by Professor Charles Richet, of the University of Paris:— Men. Austria .... 2,t00,000 England . . . 1,600,000 France .... 3,400,000 Geimany , , . 3 600,000 Italy .... 2,800,000 Rumania , . . SOO.OOO Russia •.' , . . 7,000,000 21.200,000 If these nations—supposed to be diplomatically concerned in the question of whether the obscure port of Durazzo should fall to Servia or to Austria, neither of the two having tho slightest claim to it—should rush into the fight, the expense would run at £10,000,000 per day, a sura to be greatly increased with the euro rise of prices. The following details of Professor Richet's tables on tho probable cost of a great European war are taken from a recent essay by David Starr Jordan:— DAILY COST OF A GREAT EUROPEAN ' WAR. £ 1. Feed of men . . . 3,520,000 2. Feed of horres .... 200,003 8. Pay (European rrtos) . . . 850.C00 i Pay of woiknien in arsenals and ports . . ... 200,000 S. Transportation (60 miles 10 dxys) . . . . . 420,000 ft. Transportation of provisions . 810,000 1. Munitions: Infantry, 10 cartridges a day .... 840,000 8. Artillery: 10 shots peT day . 240,000 9. Marine: 2 eliots per day . . 80,0(X) 10. Eauipruent ... . BJO~,OOO 11. Ambulances: 500.000 wounded or ill (Idol, par day) . . . 100,000 12. Cnirasseß 100,000 IS. Reduction of imports •. . 1,000,000 14. Help to the poor (20 oents per day to lin 10) . . . J,860,000 15. Destruction of towns, etc . 400,000 Total per day ... . £9,990,000