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Show FORTY MILLION DOLLARS A DAY. Europe's mighty conflict is now estimated es-timated to bo costing over forty million mil-lion dollars a day. Here are the figures as given out in Paris: Russia $14,000,000 Germany 7,225,000 France 7.000,000 England 5.000,000 Austria 4.000.000 Various 3,000,000 Tottl $40,225,000 The French appropriation is from official figures as announced by M. Ribot. minister of finance; the English Eng-lish estimate by the London Statist; the German total from "an authoritative authorita-tive source" in a Geneva paper: and the other sums from various conservative conser-vative estimates which have appeared In one place or another. The item "various" represents the probable expense ex-pense to which Servia. Belgium, and the neutral countries of Switzerland, Italy. Rumania, Turkey Greece, Holland Hol-land and Denmark have been put The vast total does not include the destruction of property Where fighting is taking place, nor the well-nigh incalculable in-calculable losses to Europe of 20.000.-000 20.000.-000 men under arms being taken from production. There arc no indications indica-tions in France that exhaustion has set in, but it is evident that the accumulated ac-cumulated treasure of even the richest rich-est countrv on the continent is being I poured out at a rate that adds 200,-000,000 200,-000,000 a month to the national debt. And what will these countries do when the war is over9 There will be wreckage to clear away which will require years of labor, there will be destroyed industries to re-establish; there will be dismay and misery; and the bravest and the best will be under un-der the sod. Twenty years will not see any ol the countries involved restored in industrial activity or back to where they were in population at the opening open-ing of the war. nn |