# Lenz on Modern Warfare

Date: March 20, 1915
Source: Lenin Collection, Volume 27
Pages: 307–310

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Friedrich Lenz: “The Political Prerequisites of Modern Warfare.” Deutsche Rundschau, XLI, No. 4, January 1915.
(p. 81)
Millions of English square miles:
1862
1888
1912
The British Empire:
4,600
9,300
10,800
»
Russian
»
:
7,600
8,600
10,200
The Ottoman Empire:
1,800
1,300
700
The United States of America:
1,500
3,500
3,700
France with its colonies (roughly):
400
1,100
4,000
The German Empire
»
»
:
240
600
1,200
Austria-Hungary:
239
241
241
Japan with its colonies:
150
150
260
Italy » d
:
100
110
700
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[3 1 0  J a The Audacious War by S. V. Barron — its commercial origins, its costs in terms of both money and manpower
(non-review) advertisement in The Economist, March 20, 1915:
“As publisher of the Wall Street Journal, the Boston News Bureau, and the Philadelphia News Bureau, Mr. Barron went abroad to gather the financial and diplomatic insights into the war—and he obtained them.”
Send your order to your bookseller or to The Wall Street Journal, 44 Broad Street, New York City, N.Y.
|4s. 6d. (paid).
(Houghton Mifflin Co., publishers)
BARROW’S BOOK ON WAR
LENZ ON MODERN WARFARE
Friedrich Lenz:
“The Political Prospects of Modern Warfare.” Deutsche Rundschau, XLI, No. 4, January 1915.
(p. 81)
Millions of English square miles:
1862
1888
1912
The British Empire:
4,600
9,300
10,800
Russia’s
»
:
7,600
8,600
10,200
The Ottoman Empire:
1,800
1,300
700
The United States of America:
1,500
3,500
3,700
France with its colonies (approximately):
400
1,100
4,800
Germany »
»
»
:
210
600
1,200
Austria-Hungary:
241
241
Japan with its colonies:
150
150
260
Italy »
»
:
100
110
700
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(p. 102)
As of October 1914, the following figures were recorded:
(German-Austrian)
(Anglo-French-Russian)
(Neutral) (ruud)
Population in millions (1910)
130
670
800
1,600
Territory in English square miles (1912)
1,440,000
26,000,000
24,470,000
Trade volume in millions of marks (1912)
26,750
76,750
58,000
52,000,000
161,500 (ibfidem])
(p. 83)
Population:
German Empire (but before 1870, without Alsace-Lorraine)
1700
1788
1816
1860
1912
1925–30
16
23
36
66
80
French (since 1870, without Alsace-Lorraine)
21
25
29
37
40
40
Millions

LENZ ON MODERN WARFARE
313 (German-Austrian)
(Anglo-French-Russian)
(Neutral) (approximately)
(p. 102)
In 1914, the following were counted:
Territories
External
Residents in English trade in millions!
square in millions (1910)
miles marks (1912)
(1912)
130
1,440,000
26,750
670
26,090,000
76,750
800
24,470,000
58,000
1,600
52,000,000
161,500 (as above)
Population:
(p. 83)
Germany
,
^vJp!¡Яlnr^и,I (before 1870, without Alsace-Lorraine)
Ie
" ез Зльваса-
Логарингии/
1700
14
21 million
1788
16
25
1816
23
29
1860
36
37
1912
66
40
1925–30
80
40