Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1913 — Cost of War. [ARTICLE]

Cost of War.

"Wars have become very dear,” said M. Theodoroff, the Bulgarian minister of finance, to a Sofia correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. “To maintain our armieß in ttta field costs us between £IOO,OOO and a day. Since the beginning of hostilities we have lost 30,000 soldiers by battle or sickness, which means 30,000 families to care for. The pensions to the dependents of the dead alone will mean an annual expense of £160,000. Then during the war we have contracted debts and made requisitions which must be paid for. Our rifles, our guns, our whole military equipment is worn out, and must be replaced.”