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Show COST OF WAR IS SHOWN IX LIVES AND IN GOLD The following data, from figures compiled by Col. Leonard P. Ayres, statistical branch, general staff, U. S. A., give the number of men of each nationality killed in battle during the war and the cost of the war in billions bill-ions of dollars down to April 30, 1919, exclusive of normal expenses and loans to allies of the nations engaged en-gaged : Lives lost Dollars Billions Russia 1,700,000 18 'Germany 1,600,000 39 France 1,385,300 26 Great Britain . . . 900,000 38 Austria 800,000 21 . ,Italy 330,000 13 Turkey 250,000 Serbia and Montenegro ... 125,000 Belgium 102,000 Roumanla 100,000 Bulgaria 100,000 United States . . . 48,900 22 Greece 7,00 Portugal 2,000 Total 7,450,200 The grouped expenditures of Turkey Tur-key and Bulgaria totalled 3.000,-000,000; 3.000,-000,000; of Belgium. Roumania, Portugal and Jugo-Slavia, $5,000 -000,000, and of Japan and Greece, ?1. 000. 000, 000. Total Tor all nations, na-tions, ?1S6, 000, 000,000. |