§ Out of the total expenditure of the year £73,197,000 was for war charges in South Africa and China. This sum includes £3,367,000 for interest on the war debt; deducting this, as a continuing charge, there remain £63,230,000 military expenditure and £6,600,000 civil expenditure, special to the year for the war, a total of £69,830,000. Towards this, £17,306,000 was contributed from the revenue, including revenue saved by the suspension of the Sinking Fund to the amount of £4,681,000.