Identifier: warineuropeitsca00john (find matches)
Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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German Artillerymen Pushing Their Guns up a Hill ton is almost the same as our long ton, being 2,204 pounds. Ananimal census taken in 1912 showed 4,516,000 horses, 20,158,000 cat-tle, 5,788,000 sheep, 22,000,000 swine, and 3,390,000 goats. In 1912 there were mined 174,875,000 metric tons of coal, 80,934,-000 tons of lignite, 27,000,000 tons of iron ore, 975,000 tons of copperore, 143,000 tons of lead ore, 1,296,000 tons of rock salt, and 11,000,-000 tons of potassic salts. The total value of the minerals mined in1912 was $564,000,000. In 1913 the furnaces of the empire produced19,292,000 tons of pig iron.
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HI S i.. II> <0 h re Z tD c 8 « 4) <: y o HI t;I- o 302 THE GERMAN EMPIRE , • The fisheries of Germany employ about 35,000 persons, and theiryearly product is valued at nearly $100,000,000. The manufactures of Germany have reached colossal proportions,and the Germans excel in nearly every department of industry. Insome lines, such as chemicals and drugs, they have almost a monopoly,as Americans have discovered to their cost. They have been very ag-gressive in the conquest of foreign trade, and they attribute Eng-lands participation in this war to her jealousy of their rapidly grow-ing foreign commerce and of their splendid merchant marine. Itwould be tedious to enumerate the items of German exports and im-ports, but we will give some significant statistics. In 1908 the totalvalue of Germanys exports was $l,i577,075,000; of imports, $1,905,-000,000. In 1913 the exports amounted to $2,212,000,000, and the im-l^orts to $2,602,450,000. By way of comj^arison we may say that dur

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