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LENZ ON MODERN WAR

Friedrich Lenz, “The Political Prerequisites of Modern War”, Deutsche Rundschau XLI, 4, 1915, January.

Millions of English square miles (p. 81):

1862 1888 1912
The British Empire: 4,600 9,300 10,800
The Russian Empire: 7,600 8,600 10,200
The Turkish Empire: 1,800 1,300 700
United States of America: 1,500 3,500 3,700
France with colonies
(round figures):
400 1,100 4,800
German Empire with colonies
(round figures):
240 600 1,200
Austria-Hungary: 239 241 241
Japan with colonies: 150 150 260
Italy ” ” : 100 110 700

At the beginning of October 1914 (p. 102):
? Population
(million)
Territory
(English
sq. miles)
Foreign
trade
(million
marks)
(1910) (1912) (1912)
(German-Austrian) 130 1,440,000 26,750
(Anglo-Franco-Russian) 670 26,090,000 76,750
(Neutral) (round figures) 800 24,470,000 58,000



1,600 52,000,000 161,500

Population (ibidem, p. 83):
Germany
(prior to 1870 without
Alsace-Lorraine)
France
(from 1870 without
Alsace-Lorraine)
1700 14 21 million
1788 16 25
1816 23 29
1860 36 37
1912 66 40
1925–30 80 40

Notes

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