COST OF THE WAR.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13729, 18 March 1915, Page 5

COST OF THE WAR.

STUPENDOUS FIGURES

(Received March 17, 11.30 p.m.)

London, March 17

Mr Edgar Crammond, in an address before the Royal Statistical Society, said the cost of the war would be £9,000,000,000 sterling a year. Belgium's loss amounted to £526,000,000, including £250,000,000 by the destruction of property. A year's war would cost Germany £2,775,000,000, including £958,000,000 in decreased prodnc-

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ion, and £879,000,000 representing He* capitalised value of human life, ' ompared with a cost to Great Britain < f £1,258,000,000. The war indemnify to compensate the victors would be £4,500,000,000." •