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Show THE HORRIBLE COST OF WAR. Millions or Urn HuorlfWrt In the War a of tba Laat Thirl? Taars. According to the estimates of French and German statisticians there havo perished in the wars of the last thirty rears 2.600.000 men, while there has been expended to carry them on no less than the inconceivable sum of 113.000,000.000. Of this amount France has paid nearly $3,500,000,000 as the cost of the war with Prussia, while her loss in men is placed at 155,000. Of . these 80. OCX) were killed on the Held of battle, 30.000 died of sickness, accidents acci-dents or suicide, and 20,000 iu German prisons, while there died from other causes enough to bring the number up to the given aggregate. The sick aud wounded amounted to 477,421. the lives of many thoiisauds of whom were doubtless shortened by their illuess or injuries. According to Dr. Roth, a German authority, the Germans lost during the war 60,000 men killed or rendered invalid in-valid and 1600,000.000 in money, this being the excess of expenditure or of material losses over the $1 ,2."0.000.0OO paid by France by way of indemnity. Dr. Engel, another distinguished German Ger-man statistician, gives the following ns the approximate cost of the principal wars of the last thirty years: Crimean, war. $2,000,000.0011; "Italian war of 185!). $300,000,000; Prusso-Dauisii war of 1KGI. $35,000,000; War of the Re-bellion(North). Re-bellion(North). $5. 100. 000. 000. (South) $2. 300. 000. 000; Prusso-Ausirian war of 1806, $330,000,000; Russo-Turkish war, 1125.000,000; South African wars, 770.000; African war, $13 250,000;. Servo-Bulgarian war, fl76.00ii.000. All these wars were murderous in tho extreme. The Crimean war. in which few battles were fought, cost 750.000 lives, only 50,000 less than, were killed or died of their wounds, North and South, during tho War of tho Rebellion. The figures, it must be remembered, are German, and might not agree precisely with American estimates. The Mexicau and Chinese expeditions cost $200,000,000 ami 65,-000 65,-000 lives. There were 250,000 killed and mortally wounded during the Kusso-Turkish war, and 45.000 each iu the Italian war of 1859 and the war between be-tween Prussia aud Austria. ' In tho other wars the loss of life was relatively rel-atively less, which did not make either the men or money easier to part with, in the more limited areas where they occurred. And this is but a part of the Recounting, Recount-ing, since it does not include tho millions mill-ions expended during the last 20 year in maintaining the vast armamouts of the European powers, the losses caused by the stoppage of commerce and manufactures, and the continual de-rangemeut de-rangemeut of industries by the abstraction ab-straction from useful employment of so many millions of persons hold for a. period of military service extending from three to live years. Sun Fran--cisco Chronicle. |