Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

RESOURCES FOR DEFRAYING WAR EXPENSES

93

EXPENDITURES a
1904-5 1905-6 Total

Ordinary Expenditure:
Army and Navy expenses..........
Redemption of national loans.......
Communication expenses...........
General education expenses.........
Other departments' ordinary expenses
Total..........................
Extraordinary Expenditure:
Railway construction and improvement expenses...............
Expenses for the steamship-line expansion and navigation encouragem ent....................
Public works expenses.............
Conservancy expenses.............
Expenses for foundation of schools...
Expenses for construction of schools,
prisons, etc...................
Hokkaido colonization expenses......
Subsidies to expenditure for Formosa..
Construction and repair expenses for
various departments..........
Treasury reserves................
Other departments' extraordinary expenses................
Total.........................

Yen Yen Yen
21,334,296 32,758,064 54,092,360
8,500,000 6,335,400 14,835,400.... 1,603,938 1,603,938
449,244 500,000 949,244
I75,134.... I75,134
30,508,675 41,197,402 71,706,077

9,I75,207 12,955,105 22,130,312
5,062,987 4,999,999 10,062,986
3,115,654 2,072,093 5,I87,747
I10,039 1,594,937 1,704,976
531,809.... 531,809.... 1,969,887 1,969,887
873,000 1,602,852 2,475,852
296,115 3,500,000 3,796,II5
628,994 1,309,968 1,938,962.... 2,200,000 2,200,000
618,908.... 618,908

20,412,715 32,204,84I.... _.

52,617,556

Other expenditure..................... 2,2,2 2,258,211
Grand total................... 50,921,390 75,660,458 126,581,848
a In the public works expenses, the subsidies to local self-governing bodies for sand-stopping and
the engineering works are included; and in the railway construction and improvement expenses,
the expenses for the construction of the Hokkaido railways are included. Various expenses belonging to the ordinary and extraordinary expenditures are included under "other expenditure." The
surplus from the Army and Navy estimates for 1904-5 covers only that up to the end of I904, the
surplus for the rest of the fiscal year, that is, for the three months ending in March, 1905, being estimated at 8,997,599 yen.
yen, some 50,920,000 yen in 1904-5 and some 75,660,000 yen
in I905-6. The figure would swell to more than I35,570,000
yen if the surplus of the Army and Navy expenses for the
remaining three months of the fiscal year I904-5 were added.
Thus a part of the war funds was raised by the retrenchments
of expenditure on the one hand and by the increase in the
revenue on the other.