Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-08-12 | Page 8 | Europe's War is Costing More than All or Wars Combined since Time of Napoleon

Europe's Europe s War Is Costing More Than All Other Wars Combined Since Time of Napoleon The total cost of all the worlds world's wars since the time of Napoleon I. I until the present time is but one one-naif of the cost so f far r of the European conflict The Napoleonic wars lasting two decades coaL The Crime Crimean an wars cost coal in total The American civil war cost The war between Prussia and Austria cost Total I Compared with this thirty-four thirty and a half billions of dollars as the he total expenses of belligerents from the time of Napoleon until 1914 the terrific cost of the present titanic struggle can be better comprehended For this world war according to Jean Finot the famous French statistician has cost to date about i eighty billions of dollars and should it be prolonged another year I I will cost the staggering sum of one hundred billions of dollars or practically THREE TIMES the amount used in the above noted I wars I