WAR COST 20,000,000 LIVES
HALF NUMBER DIED OF EFFECTS.
CAPITAL COST £40,000,000,000. '
By- Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, November 12. The Commonwealth war historian. Captain C. E. Bean, addressing the Constitutional Association, said that from the statistical information available more than 10,000,009 men were killed in the war, while since the war 10,000,000 had died from war effects. The capital cost was well over £40,000,000,000, apart from the losses due to the disturbance of trade and industries. Australia lost over 60,000 killed, and an additional 20,000 had since died from war effects. Great Britain lost 750,000 men killed at the war, and other parts of the British Empire 950,000. The Allies as a whole lost about 6,000,000 killed, and the enemy forces approximately 4,000,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1929, Page 12
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