§ MR. TREVELYAN (Yorkshire, W.R., Elland)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can give the figures of the expenditure upon the Japanese Army for each of the last five years, and the cost per head of the population compared with Great Britain and the leading European nations.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) The Japanese Budget Estimates, as published, for the years named were as follows:—
With regard to the cost per head as compared with other nations it is, as previously stated in answer to Questions of a similar nature, impossible to arrive for purposes of comparison at any reliable conclusion as to the actual military expenditure incurred by the various foreign Powers.
£ 1899–1900 5,558,025 1900–1901 5,293,588 1901–1902 4,955,635 1902–1903 4,669,510 1903–1904 4,217,196