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Show WAR COSTS ENGLAND $25,000,000 A WEEK London. The government Is expected expect-ed shortly to make a further issue of ?7o. 000,000 treasury bills. In the last 11 days of September supplies cost In excess of $75,000,000, the bulk of which went for war, white In the preceding pre-ceding week $43,595,000 was absorbed In the same way. The government balance on hand September 30 does not exceed $20.-000,000. $20.-000,000. The war is costing more than $25,000,000 weekly, the expenditure on "supply services" having increased by $211,910,000 during the eight weeks of the war. The stock exchange committee is making Inquiries into certain transactions trans-actions on behalf of German Interests before the war. Punishment is urged for those who accepted German orders or-ders wEich helped the panic. |