Great War Cost £68,000,000,000
It is said by a French scholar that an unsuccessful law suit was only slightly less cosily than a successful one. A similar remark might well be made of the conduct of war. Some lime ago the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace conducted an investigation into the question of war losses. Its investigators reported that, in their opinion, the World War cost as much as £68,000.000,000, The same people reported that the war took a 101 l of as many as 23.000,CGO lives, of whom at least 10,000,000 were soldiers. As many as 0,000,000 children became orphans, and no fewer than 10,000.000 were forced to roam about the world as refugees. It was said. too. that Germany lost over 2,000,000 men killed, and" approximately 3.500.000 wounded. The cost of the war to Germany has been put down at the immense figure of £8,000.000,000. In territory. Germany lost posses-, sion of Danzig and the Polish Corridor.
The Crmeroons, Togoland, SouthWest Africa, and East Africa were all taken from her. At that time, these territories held about 18.GG0 German settlers. Other territories taken from her comprise the Marshall Isles, Samoa, New Guinea and Nauru Island. She also surrendered to Japan a portion of the Peninsula of Shantung on the coast of China.
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Northern Advocate, 9 November 1939, Page 2
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