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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ve been expected for somemonths after the signing of the armistice.Last Novembers expenses made a newrecord and Decembers were still greater bymore than one hundred million dollars. Oneneeds only to consider, however, that theexpenses of demobilization are practicallyas great as those of mobilization; and thatwith a war plant growing at a rate neverknown before in the history of the world,the momentum could not conceivably bestopped within a few days or weeks—to un-derstand that no other result could have beenlooked for. Then such single Items as ourshipbuilding program have not been stoppedor scaled down. It Is probable that ourfifth great bond issue on account of the warwill call for five billion dollars or more.In the middle of January Secretary of theTreasury Glass gave some suggestions toshow the trend of the Treasury Depart-ments plans. It Is not improbable that therate of Interest may be raised to 4^ percent, and it Is practically certain that thebonds will be of short terms.
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@ Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. © Committee on Public Information THE CITIZENS OF PARIS. AND PRESIDENT POINCARE. WELCOME PRESIDENT WILSON ON HIS ARRIVAL IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS (From December i8, iQl8, to January j6, igig) INCIDENTS DURING THE ARMISTICE December 18.—The American Jewish Congress,at Philadelphia, frames a bill of rights and se-lects delegates to lay the principles before thePeace Conference. It is officially stated that the German long-range cannon fired 168 shells into Paris, killing196 persons and wounding 417, and that during1918 there were 1,211 casualties from air raidsover Paris. December 21.—It is semi-officially stated thatItalys casualties in the war were: killed in action,200,000; died from disease, 300,000; severelywounded, 300,000; prisoners, 500,000. December 22.—Russias war casualties areplaced at 9,150,000 in a dispatch from Petrograd—including 1,700,000 killed, 1,450,000 disabled,3,500,000 other wounded, 2,500,000 priso

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