In his recent speech in the House of Commons on the Navy Estimat the Chancellor of the Exchequ: stated that the estimated cost of the war to the end of 1915 thousand million pounds sterling (£2,000,000,000).
Even on the largest possible scale of extravagant living it is impossible to imagine what might be done with sq vast a fortune, and the headlines above have no reference to any ordinary or extraordinary ndard of expenditure delights (or boredoms) of multi-millionaires.
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