BIGGEST BUDGET ON RECORD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2574, 23 September 1915, Page 5

BIGGEST BUDGET ON RECORD

BRITAIN'S NEW WAR TAXES - AH PROPOSALS CARRIED ■ THE RUSSIAN CRISIS " -OUTLOOK for vilna army : - : ;V ■- 1- .; . BLOW ON THE AUSTRIAN FLANK V SUCCESS IN THE WESTERN THEATRE ; , The biggest budget in British history has been introduced in the House of Commons, and adopted. The mainJcatui-es of the proposals and the neif'taxation are. the most absorbing items in tho cablegrams " to-day. On the Eastern, front the Russian crisis "in the north, in which.the fate of the Vilna army is involved, is .stated to be' less 'acute, tho pressure having been relieved by heavy rearguard'fighting. In the south the Russians have struck several .sharp blows on their Austrian enemy,- repelling a heavy' attack with severe losses to the attackers, - and delivering a smashing counter-attack on their flank.' There are signs of an awakening in the Western tkeatfre, and the y'news to-day details. effeotive work by the British artillery in Flanders and . a smart coup on the Marne-Aisne Canal, while there has also, been sharp fighting in the Vosges. The heavy fog over the Italian , theatre shows'no signs of lifting. In the Balkans theatre the Rus- • sians have sunk a Turco-frerman submarine, and the Turks are rush-, ing large reinforcements to Gallipoli-. A general mobilisation has been ordered in Bulgaria, and King Ferdinand and the heads of his administration vhaye been'presented with Iron Crosses.