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

COST OF THE WAR

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6,830,000 yen were for the Army and 1,3I0,000 yen for the
Navy. The details follow:
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES
Army Navy
Yen Per Cent Yen Per Cent
Secret service money.... 3,224,435.... Secret service money..... 824,928....
Enlistment expenses..... 3,67,500.... Expenses for the triumphal
Lost money............ I3,37I.... ceremony............. 29,193....
Hiroshima City sanitation 40,975... Lost money............. 402,958....
River Edo bridge con- Sanitary expenses........ 55,997
struction............,700.... Expenses for the compilaContributions to the tion of the naval hygienic
Yasukuni Shrine...... 265,000... history during the Russo-Japanese war....... 93
Total.............. 6,832,981 0.5 Total........ 1......,313,269 o.I
Grand total....................................................... 8,146,250 0.5
To recapitulate briefly, the war costs for the Army totaled
some 85 per cent, the equipment expenses some 65 per cent,
the personnel expenses some I9.0 per cent, and the "other
expenses" only 0.5 per cent of the entire war expenses. But
the war costs for the Navy amounted to only 14.9 per cent
of the entire war expenses. Indeed, they were so low that
they were below the Army personnel expenses alone. The
equipment expenses, the greater part of the Navy war costs
totaled some 13 per cent, the personnel expenses 1.6 per cent,
and the miscellaneous expenses less than o.I per cent, of the
total war expenses.
That the costs for the Navy were comparatively small
may be explained by the fact that the fighting power of a
navy consists mainly in such material equipments as warships
and armament, which can not be rapidly increased in war, and
calls for rapid increase of the personnel, which is of secondary
consideration. But the case is quite different with the Army
whose fighting power in war can be rapidly increased in its
personnel, at the same time enlarging its material fighting
power represented by the arms and munitions, which are
subordinate to the personnel. It is also to be remembered
that the expenses in connection with the personnel are generally larger than those for the arms and munitions. It is not
strange, therefore, that the war costs for the Army are far