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CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, .JULY .11, 191.').
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF EUROPEAN WAR
The second year of the European war opens tomorrow. On
August 1, 1914, G ermany declared war against Russia and the I
last chance vanished of localizing the Austro-Serbian war,
declared three days previously by Austria-Hungary.
AH tlie great powers of Europe were drawn into a struggle
the like of which history has not heretofore recorded. Eleven
nations are at war and almost all lands are affected, directly or
indirectly. Millions of men have been killed, wounded or
carried to captivity in hostile countries. Billions of dollars
have been expended. Thousands of square miles of territory
have-been devastated and hundreds of cities and towns laid
waste. Halt the world is in mourning for the dead. And
although the war has been in progress witli unexampled fury
lor a year, the result may be summarized in one brief sentence:
,No decisive results have been achieved and the end is not in
sight.
Determination to pursue the war to a decisive ending has
been expressed' by high officials of all the belligerent nations,
preparations are being made for next winter’s campaign, and,
in fact, indications from Europe are that it is more likely to
increase in size rather than decrease. It is still an open
question whether Bulgaria, Rumania or Greece will be '
drawn in.
In view of the immensity of the struggle, previous stand
ards count for little in considering the price the world is
Paying. The figures involved are so vast as to convey little
meaning. The nations at war have poured out their treasures
of men and gold without limit. The usual standards of life ;
have been subordinated or disregarded, and in some cases
social, industrial and political activities have been virtually
reorganized on a militaristic basis, to make all contribute to
the supreme necessities of war.
It is impossible to obtain accurate statistics of the number
ol men engaged, the casualties and the cost. For obvious
reasons the size of the various armies is kept secret. Most of
the nations do not consider it expedient to reveal the number
of casualties; in fact, Great Britain is the only one which has
given out official totals. As to the money expended, there are
available only partial statistics.
More than half the population of the world lives in the
countries at war. The population of the warring countries is
estimated roughly at 947,000,000 and of the countries at peace
at 797,000,000. The population of the Entente nations is per
haps five times as great as that of their opponents. The number
of men under arms has been estimated variously, usually in
the neighborhood of 20,000,000. William Michaelis. writing
recently in a Berlin magazine, put the number of soldiers at
war at 21,770,000; for the allies, 12,820,000; for Germany,
Austria-Hungary and' Turkey, 8,950,000.
No previous war has approached the present one in whole
sale destruction of life. This is due not only to the number of |
men involved, but to the terrible efficiency of modern weapons.
Trench warfare on a great scale, with its deadly charges,
mining operations and extensive use of artill^hy and hand
grenades, has contributed to this end. Whereas in the past it
has been calculated that the proportion of killed to total
casualties runs 1 to 8 or 1 to 10, the proportion in trench war
fare, as indicated by official British statistics, is about 1 to 5. ,
The battles on the plains of Flanders, on the Warsaw front, k
in the Austro-German advance through Galicia and in the
Carpathians were attended by frightful slaughter. Russian
losses in the Carpathians along were estimated unofficially at
500.000. Along the battlefields from Arras, in northwestern
France, to the Belgian coast whole fields have been covered
with corpses, and at the time of the German attempt to reach
the English Channel the Yser Canal was choked with the dead.
According to official British statistics, the British army alone
has been losing of late, in killed, wounded and' missing 2,000 a
day. On June 9 Premier Asquith announced that British
casualties since the beginning of the war (excluding naval
losses of 13,549 up to May 31) amounted to 258,069, of which
the total of killed was 50,342.
The losses of Germany, France and Russia, by reason of
their larger armies, have been far greater. The Heer Und
Politik of Berlin early in June estimated that more than
5.000. 000 soldiers of the countries at war with Germany and her
allies have been killed, wounded or captured. Ilailaire Belloc,
the English military writer, said Germany’s potential manhood
for actual fighting probably had diminished from all causes by
hourly one-half in the first year of the war, and asserted a
‘(conservative estimate was that Germany had much nearer
4.000. 000 than 3,000,000 men permanently out of the field. Esti
mates of the total casualties run from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000
with the former figure probably conservative.
The cost in money runs to a similarly huge total. Great
Britain is now spending about $15,000,000 a dav on the war.
according to Premier Asquith. Albert Metin, general budget
Reporter of the French Chamber of Deputies, calculates the war
\s costing France $10,000 a minute or $14,400,000 a day. William
aichaelis recently estimated the daily cost to Germany at
$,250,000, saying 40 days of this wax- cost as much as the whole
Pranco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Tn March Dr. Karl Half
'erich, Secretary of the Imperial Treasury of Germany, said
he war was costing all belligerents $375,000,000 a week.
On the basis of Dr. Helfferich’s estimate, the first year of
he war cost the stupendous sum of $11,500,000,000. Mr.
dichaelis puts the figure at 15 billions of dollars, not including
taly’s expenditures; a sum more than 50 per cent greater than
he gold production of the world during the last 500 years.
Ither estimates run still higher, to 20 billion dollars or more.
In addition to the money expended directly on the war, the
. )bs in destruction of property on land and sea has run high
ito the millions. Great losses are being occasioned by the
ssation of curtailment of many fonns of productive industry,
he energies of the world’ have been largely diverted to making
1 ar. Factories of all sorts have been turned over to the
making of war munitions, men taken from mill and field, to be
replaced by women, old men and children. Economists assert
that for generations to come the world will feel tin* effect of
the huge losses, in the burden of taxation and otherwise, and
sociologists make conflicting predictions ns to its moral,
physical and psychological effect on generations living and to
come.
The war has been attended with many unexpected fea
tures, one of which is its protraction. It had'been believed that
such a struggle would be of comparatively short duration, on
account of the cost and loss of life it would entail.' At the out
set it was commonly said that within less than a year the
nations involved would be compelled to seek pence through
financial exhaustion, if for no other reason. While each side has
won its victories, no final results have been reached in nny of
the campaigns, with a few minor exceptions of the lessor
oj*erntions in distant colonies. Over the greater part of the
Franco-Belgian front the opposing millions are facing each
other in the same positions as last September. Movements on
the Eastern front have been wider, hut with no signs of an
approaching decision.
Neutrals as well as belligerents have been affected. The
financial stringency which followed the outbreak of war was
world-wide. Tin* United' States, in common with other neutrals
has been confronted with the threatened abridgement of its
rights, particularly at sen, and has sent notes of remonstrance
to England and Germany, the complications with the latter
country following the sinking of the Lusitania giving especial
concern.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Jours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
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