Show MOST EXPENSIVE WAR alio london graphic places the cot of itic boer war a over one billion dollars or quarter of a billion dollars more than the most expensive of En glands wars prior to the south african outbreak in october glands En can hardly be estimated in dollars killed aggregate officers and men not to of the tens of thousands invalided invalid ed biome it is commonly believed that the intrigue of the gold mine owners was at the hot aiom of the conflict in fact it was proved in an english court that the jakcson raid was instigated by them and that raid was virtu auy the beginning of the war although open hostilities did not occur until some years after the gold kings who figured on making money by the spilling of the best blood of boer and briton have also to meet their bitter disappointments for nearly two years and a half their ponderous machinery on the rand conglomerate has been idle except a few hoist and stamps which have been operated in a way for the last couple of months prior outbreak the mills were turning out almost liala the gold yield of the world the stream of the precious metal which biad been flowing into englesi Eng lisi channels of trade giving the nation wonderful financial ceased and the weakness jn a ganancial An ancial way which lui resulted hag been felt greatly to the embarrassment of english commerce the cost of the boer war totals in national and individual losses cannot be estimated but the conflict has been unparalleled in expensiveness in ane annals of inglish warfare |