Show 1 I W J t N t f I if- if PEACE TERMS REA HEAVY VY LARGE AMOUNTS PAID BY VANQUISHED VANQUISHED VAN VAN- NATION Indemnity Added to the Cost of War Might Well Make Nations Hesitate Before Engaging in Conflict Conflict Im Im Immense mense Sum Exacted fr from m France At the conclusion of her war war with wit China in 1840 the Celestial Empire was forced to pay Great Britain 25 A goodly portion of this indemnity Indemnity in was paid over to British merchants merchants mer mer- merchants chants by way of compensation forthe for tor forthe the destruction of ot their property by bythe bythe bythe the Chinese But considering that this war cost over it cannot be bo described as a profitable bargain At the close of ot the second war with China the indemnity paid England was But as three and a half dollars were expended for every one paid back it is easy to see seo which nation had the better side of ot the transaction The United States has been satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied with a grant of territory in each of ot the wars she has waged In fact at the end of the war with Mexico we wo paid to the Mexicans as consideration for the territory annex annex- ed Also during the war with Spain when she gave up her struggle for possession of her colonial possessions and sued for peace the United States agreed to pay over to the Spanish government the sum of to compensate them for tor their terrible loss At one time when Schleswig Hol I Istein stein belonged to Denmark Bismarck having cast covetous eyes at tl the e harbor harbor harbor har har- bor of Kiel Klel situated in Holstein caused Jutland to be invaded by the Prussians When his forces were routed he cunningly inveigled Austria Austri into supporting him and the allied troops having proved too strong for their adversaries might once triumphed triumph triumph- ed over civer over right The victors as often happens over the disposition tion of the spoils and this gave rise to tC the war between Austria and Germany Gormany Gormany Gor- Gor many in 1866 The latter power proved proved proved ed victorious and Insisted upon Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria paying as war indemnity a sum eum that with the amounts levied upon the five small states which helped her reached nearly The severity with which Bismarck treated the French at the conclusion of the Prussian Franco war surpassed the Instance Just mentioned The price he compelled France to pay for peace was the largest war Indemnity ever exacted It was was thought that this would ruin France Franc but owing to the thrift of the French peasants the last instalment was met before it was due Although this sum exceeded by several millions the amount expended by the Germans on the war they and the wily Bismarck never ceased to regret that they had hadnot hadnot not doubled it Considering that France had also to surrender two of her fairest provinces Germany made madean madean an unprecedented and enormous profit as ns the result of the conclusion of ot peace When Russia defeated Turkey after atter suffering severe reversals her herself self in the struggle of 1877 she accepted accepted ac ac- the sum of ot indemnity indemnity though she had pad at first attacked a much larger sum This was littlemore littlemore little littlemore more than the actual cost of the cam and the the victors would not e entertain entertain en en- any aDY lower terms as the dam dam- age ago inflicted on their subjects and commerce by the war was f fully lly equal to these figures large though they were So far Turkey has paid littlemore littlemore little more than half the the indemnity and there seems little likelihood that she sM sh will wUl ever r raise lse the full amount Like her former enemy en enemy my Turkey was forced not many years rears ago t td to substantially reduce a a claim for in Tl The sult sultan n claimed OO from Gr Greece eco a as as Attie the condition oi bl peace But by l ih the Intervention n o othe oJ of the powers powers' he was vas compelled to a accept ac so one fifth of the amount At AI Greece was practically in a state rj ci bankruptcy it would have been inn imp possible for the state to have bave complied complied com complied plied with the original demands o J JI t I J iUt |