A WAR OF MILLIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 98, 15 August 1914, Page 4

A WAR OF MILLIONS.

In no war in the history of the world a writer in the Dominion points out, have such vast numbers of men been engaged. Probably over four million men are actually at the front, while the total available war strength (Britain, France, and Russia) is nearly 9£ million men, and Austria, and Germany have between them a military strength of about eight millions. Compared with the Titanic, struggle, previous wars may well be considered puny affairs. In the Crimean War the allied British, French, and Turkish forces only numbered 55.000 men, and the Russians had about 50,000 men in the field, the total number engaged in the war being 108,000. In the FrancoPrussian War of 1870 the French Army consisted of 300,000 men. while the Prussian forces numbered 040,000,1e5s than a million, men altogether taking part in the conflict. In the RussoJapanese War each of the combatants placed about half a million soldiers in the field, and it is estimated that 600,000 men took part in the Rattle of Mukden, which is supposed to be the greatest battle which has ever been fought as far as numbers are concerned. The present war completely overshadows, all previous 'Conflicts between nations both as regards the size of the armies engaged and the magnitude oi the issues' involved, with the exception perhaps of the'issues at stake in the Napoleonic campaigns,' which included a whole series of wars, extending over a period of about twenty years.;