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

46 EXPENDITURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

The expenses in connection with Manchuria and Korea, I,380,000 yen in total, were those political expenses incurred
for the accelerated construction of means of communication
during the war-time and also for the enforcement of the rights
secured by Japan through the war. The expenses for the
accelerated construction of means of communication, 5,480,ooo yen in all, included the subsidy for the construction of
the Seoul-Fusan Railway, loans to the Seoul-Fusan Railway
Co., and the expenses for the management of the communication work in Korea. The political expenses, 5,900,000 yen
in total, were the expenses for the Kwantung GovernmentGeneral and Korean Government-General Offices, and the
subsidies to the Korean Government. The details are as
follows:
EXPENSES IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA, I904-I908
1904-5 I905-6 1906-7 1907-8 Total
Political expenses a Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
Expenses for the Kwangtung Government-General Office........... 1,608,713 360,903 1,969,616
Advances to the Korean Government......................... 1,500,000........ I,500,000
Expenses for the Korean ResidentGeneral Office................ 273,205 2,027,781 132,441 2,433,427
Total..........................,773,205 3,636,494 493,344 5,903,043
Expenses for the accelerated construction of means of communications
Subsidies for the construction of
the Seoul-Fusan Railway.... 1,750,000 450,000........ 2,200,000
Loans to the Seoul-Fusan Railway
Co......................,580,ooo............ 1,580,000
Expenses for management of communication work in Korea....... I,071,340 630,625 3,089 1,705,054
Total....................... 3,330,000 1,521,340 630,625 3,089 5,485,054
Grand total................. 3,330,000 3,294,545 4,267,119 496,432 11,388,097
a Of the political expenses, the expenses for the Kwantung Government-General were under the
control of the Foreign Office, the expenses relating to Korea, under the control of the Finance
Department, and the expenses relating to communications, under the control of the Department of
Communications.
The financial administration expenses totaled some I 19,870,ooo yen, more than half of the entire war-time administration
expenses. They were incurred for the issue of the war-time
bonds, the payment of interest, the collection of war-taxes,
the creation of Government monopolies of tobacco and salt,