Identifier: onehundredyearso00morr (find matches)
Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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STRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF POWERS 61 enormous quantities. While a large part of the area is level groundthere is much elevated territory, and the mineral wealth is veryimportant. It includes gold, silver, platinum, iron, copper, coaland salt, all of large occurrence. Of the people, over 1,800,000are employed in manufacture, and the annual value of the commerceamounts to $1,300,000,000. The length of railway is about 50,000miles. Russia is heavily in debt, Germany being its largest creditor.The total debt is stated at $4,553,000,000, its revenue $1,674,000,000.The liability to military service covers all able-bodied men betweenthe ages of twenty and forty-two years. Five years must be passedin active service, the remainder in the various reserves. On apeace footing the army is 1,290,000 strong; its war strength is5,500,000. The territorial service is capable of supplying about3,000,000 more, making a possible total of 7,500,000. As regardsthe navy, it was greatly reduced in strength in

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