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

44 EXPENDITURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
ORDINARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, 1903-I907 a
I903-4 I904-5 I905-6 I906-7 Total
Foreign Office Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
Secret Service money........... 1,089,994 837,72 1,160,965 I99,958 3,288,648
Telegram charges................. 1,299,994 I,070,915.... 2,370,909
Miscellaneous expenses......... 139,551 504,928 270,414 285,606 I,200,499
Total...................... 1,229,545 2,642,643 2,502,294 485,574 6,860,056
Home Office
Extraordinary police expenses.... 6,905 I2I,oio 273,997 13,498 415,410
Relief expenses for soldiers' families.... 354,701 365,862 2,626 723,189
Extraordinary sanitary expenses..... I9,743 273,403.... 293,146
Extraordinary reward expenses..... 53,592 10,73I I00,937 265,260
Miscellaneous expenses......... 4,608 86,123 189,407 38,437 318,575
Total...................... 1,5I3 635,179 1,213,400 155,498 2,0I5,580
Other Expenses
For manufacture of decorations,
medals, etc................... 299,260 596,353 3,804,628 4,700,241
For extraordinary meteorological
observation............... 9,289 77,281 12,482 60,150 259,202
Miscellaneous................. 5,587 31,826 134,877 214,586 486,876
Total....................... 14,876 408,367 843,712 4,I79,364 5,446,319
Grand total............... 1,255,934 3,686,79 4,559,406 4,820,436 14,321,955
aThe expenses for the Kwantung Government General are excluded from the Foreign Office
expenses; the Home Office expenses are the same as the expenses under the control of the Home
Office; and the "other" administration expenses include the expenses for the Cabinet under the
control of the Finance Department, small items belonging to the Audit Board, the extraordinary
meteorological observation expenses of the Education Department, the expenses for the handling of
the war honors and allowances for the Department of Communications, and the expenses of the
Prize Court.
created demands for iron and steel and some were incurred
for the encouragement of horse gelding, for the cutting of firewood for the Army, and for mining business expenses. The
expenses for the Department of Communications were those
incurred for the rapid increase in mails and telegrams, for the
construction of the rolling stock necessary for military transportation, and for the quick construction of the railway line
between Fukuchiyama, Sonobe, and Maizuru. The details
are shown in the table at the top of the following page.
The military expenses, some 6I,300,000 yen in all, were
under the control of the Department of War and Navy. It
appears proper to include them in the war-time military
expenses, which were discussed in the preceding section, but
they are considered here simply because they were a part of
the extraordinary-affairs expenses. And the expenses for the
Department of War totaled some 36,260,000 yen, of which