. Two thousand questions and answers about the war : a catechism of the methods of fighting, travelling, and living; of the armies, navies, and air fleets; of the personalities, politics and geography of the warring countries ; with seventeen new war maps and a pronouncing dictionary of names. 1 MERCHANT GREECE ^mpn MERCHANT ROUMANIA NATIONAL. MERCHANT MAINSPRINGS OF THE WAR Q.—Is the World War really in-comparably vaster than anypreceding one?- A.—The money cost alone would showthat it is. The U. S. Treasury Depart-ments figures of the total expenditure atthe close of the third year were near
. Two thousand questions and answers about the war : a catechism of the methods of fighting, travelling, and living; of the armies, navies, and air fleets; of the personalities, politics and geography of the warring countries ; with seventeen new war maps and a pronouncing dictionary of names. 1 MERCHANT GREECE ^mpn MERCHANT ROUMANIA NATIONAL. MERCHANT MAINSPRINGS OF THE WAR Q.—Is the World War really in-comparably vaster than anypreceding one?- A.—The money cost alone would showthat it is. The U. S. Treasury Depart-ments figures of the total expenditure atthe close of the third year were nearlyninety thousand millions of dollars. Onthe tiien estimated basis of $116,700,000daily, the direct expense of this war upto March i, 1918, was practically onehundred and ten billions; whereas all thewars of all the nations from 1793 to 1914(which includes the terrible Napoleonicwars, the American Civil War, theFranco-Prussian, and the Russian-Jap-anese) footed up an aggregate of lessthan quarter of this amount. Q.—Are we justified in namingthis the World War? A.—At the beginning of 1918 practically93% of the worlds population was in-volved. The fifteen countries still classedas neutrals had a combined population ofonly 130,000,000; and a quarter of thesewere the natives of the Dutch East Indiapossessions; whereas the twenty-th
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