The following table
indicates the nature of the resources of opposing nations and the
character of their Colonial sources of support:
Wealth/Population/Total Army/Navy/Population of Colonies
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Great Britain
$80,000,000,000/45,000,000/800,000/681/368,000,000
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France
65,000,000,000/39,000,000/2,100,000/382/41,000,000
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Russia
40,000,000,000/171,000,000/8,000,000/249/5,000,000
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Germany
60,000,000,000/65,000,000/5,000,000/354/12,000,000
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Austria
25,000,000,000/49,000,000/2,200,000/155/15,000,000
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It was a curious characteristic of the press comments and
magazine articles and book studies of the War during these months
that while varied fighting was going on in the various Colonies
of these Powers and in the case of Great Britain, notably,
countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India were
pouring out men and gifts to aid the Empire, statistical
calculations usually rated Great Britain as not an Empire but
simply a nation with the wealth and population of its two little
islands in the North Sea.
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