In reply to ® question forwarded by Messrs, Sawa and Ito, Parliamentary members of the People's Party, the Naval Department despatched on the 10th instant the following detailed account of war expenses in connexion with the Sino-jose and Russo-Japanese Wars which has hitherto been kept secret, says the "Japan Daily Herald" expenditure will be destroyed suck accounts are not calculated in the above statement, 5. War expenditure per ton per diem in the Russo-Jepanese was smaller than that in the SinoJapanese war, owing to the fact that the number of the crew and other arrangements was not augmented in proportion to the increase of tonnage.
6. Expenditure per ton is not augmented by the increase of for nage, but other expenditure is creasing owing to rises in salon and the price of commodities. Therefore expenditure per ton at the present time will be about the same as that required during the Russo-Japanese war.
7. The average expenditure per ton per diem in the months when the largest amount of outlay was required, October, 1894, in the Sino-Japanese war, and June, 1905, in the Russo-Japanese war, is as fol lows Tae diem. Yen 217-617 85 Yen 354,282.04
Extraor- Sinospanese Ruseo-Japanese dinary war,
ture Ye Yea 19,437 019, 605 101,316,709, 274 of 62,818 tonx 283, tons of swe 209 days from 614 uy. 1.1894, to tonnage of during warships
aid month Over 62800 Over 283,690 Yen 3305 Yen 1386
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