Nearly a World War

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1915

Nearly a World War

SINCE Italy has joined in the great European war, it can be truly said that more than half the world is now directly involved in the military cataclysm. The following list will make this readily apparent:—

ALLIES	POPULATION
British Empire	422,000,000
France and colonies	94,000,000
Russian Empire	171,000,000
Italy and colonies	36,800,000
Belgium and Kongo	23,000,000
Japan	67,000,000
Serbia	2,900,000
Montenegro	516,000
Total	817,216,000

TEUTONS
German Empire	78,000,000
Austria-Hungary	49,500,000
Turkey	31,580,000
Total	159,080,000


Nations at war	976,296,000
World	1,721,426,000

It is estimated that Italy’s entry into the war, with her 1,700,000 trained men, will swell the number of men engaged in the war for the first year to the enormous total of 29,950,000. Germany’s forces are estimated at 7,000,000; Russia’s, 7,000,000; Austria-Hungary’s, 5,500,000; England’s, 3,000,000; France’s, 4,000,000; Turkey’s, 1,500,000; and Serbia’s, 250,000. In case Roumania, Bulgaria, and Greece enter the conflict, this will add another 1,500,000 men, or a grand total of 31,400,000 men engaged in the terrible business of war; and all this in the age of peace societies and international compacts and treaties!