Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 76, 29 July 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH. ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT. TRIBUTE TO RUSSIAN EFFORTS. United Press Association (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, July 28. Mr Asquith, in moving the adjournment until September 14, said that the success of the ar Loan had done a s ifmch as anything to convince the world, and particularly our Allies, that wo are determined to devote our whole resources to the successful prosecution of the war. Since the outbreak of the war, the Ptgsn with one or two melancholy notorious exceptions (loud applause), had dweharged their duties with admirable restraint. The members of the Commons had also discharged the duty of criticism in an patriotic manner.

Mr Asquith, in justifying the adjournment, retorted to the errormous increase in the number of questions which put an intolerable strain on the State Departments. He regretted that the action of the Lords necessitated the postponement of the Pensions Bill until after the adjou ■ument. when he hoped it would be carried by general consent. Meanwhile, the pensions and allowances would continue as before the war, which would be a contest in endurance.

Mr Asquith, continuing, said they would be ungrateful and insensitive 'I they did not recognise at this moment the indescribably gallant efforts of our Russian Allies to stem the tide of invasion and to maintain inviolate the integrity of their position. fie thought that in the whole of military history there had not been a more magnificent example of discipline patient endurance, and both individual and collective initiative than had been shown by the Russian Army during the last eleven months.

ITALIANS GAINING GROUND. EVERY CONFIDENCE IN THE RESULT. (Received 10.25 a.in.) London, July 25. Mr Asquith, continuing, sail! that the Italians were steauily gaining 1 ground ami were making their way towards the objective, which, it is believed, would shortly he wituiii their reach. As for ourselves and the French, who have been lighting side by side for a year, he did not believe tiiat there have ever been armies inspired with more complete and mine unreserved spirit of Iraternily and comradeship, or with more confidence that victory would ultimately . lie theirs. Our confidence in the Gallipoli operations was undiminished. I lie naval position was now tar stronger than before the war. Serious as the submarine menace might appear lot a moment, it was not going to indict fatal or substantial injury to Mritish trade in lood and raw mateiials. which were coming in as in limes ol peace.

GGRVICE AT ST. PAUL'S. United Press A c soff.vnoN. VReceiv(ml 12.99 |>. in. ) London, .iiiiy 2S. Oiu* hundred iiiul titty Austral;.m convalescents and about ono hundred \V« Zealander* will attend St. Paul s on August I. In support ol tin l lU'disu Proijnc 1 ’ -• remarks concerning Russia, a London correspondent, writing on June It. said: One is tilled with mui| le admiration for the amazing valour ot the Russian oilieers and men. Some day the world will realist* that the Russians have at limes been lighting with tile primitive weapon ol cold steel alone against the Anstro-German legions equipped with heavy artillery and poison gas. The best equipped ol the Russian troops art; still in front ol Warsaw, but any battalion that boasts thirty-five rounds ol rifle ammunition, as the average supply per man, thinks it is tioing quite well.- The desperate venture of the Dardanelles was undertaken solely in order to remedy this defect front which our brave Allies sutler. But the operations are costly and slow, and it may be sonic time yet before the Allied fleet eammamls the Golden Horn.