AMERICA'S WAR BILL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 5

AMERICA'S WAR BILL.

FORTY MILLION DOLLARS A DAY

'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, Oct. 16. The "New York World's" Washington correspondent says that the United States is paying forty million dollars daily or one-fourth of the; cost of the war. America's expenditure is tho highest; Britain^ second, and Germany's third. Air authoritative statistical estimate-' 'of the total cost to August, 1918, is 15i s billion dollars.

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