Second Edition Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Great Britain

THE LATEST CREDIT VOTE. OUR DAILY EXPENDITURE £4,000,(100. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE ALLIES:.— fit Si v\ CHURCHILL QUERULOUS. \ [United Peb»j AfisooiiTioN;] (Received 1.10 p.m.) . l ' London, May 23. In the House of Commons, Mr Asquith, in moving the credit vote, said he was confident-himself in the finan- ' cial interests of the country. He was not attempting a general review of the strategic situation. The expenditure for the’ past fifty days was £241,000,000, which was a higher daily average for the consecutive period. The principal items were: Navy and munitions 149 millions, loans to the Allies and Dominions 14i, food, - railways, etc., 17 J. Eliminating an item really belonging to 1915, the daily average expenditure was somewhat below £4,--,.600,000. Mr Asquith etnphasisbfl- that one contribution we are gladly making in the common cause „is in affording financial aSsis Allies.—(Cheers) — without which it was literally true that the gfeat combined operations could not bo prosecuted with efficiency and success., The, baiancq-still -held of the last vtMleVwfcAd' : sma^.aiuiE tll& . second of June, , and the present vote would last until the first week in August. He was convinced that provision for the prosecution of ihe war should be made readily and generously, asd, with the same confidence.. and justice which caused the triumphant issue of previous votes, Mr Churchill sfiid it was unreasonable for people to expect that the war would turn on a decision being accoraplish^.^suddeQilS’. om\ favor," * i v ies were Aveidy - uiat^r ched. as we in. men, but the " tion. We had' , *‘ter^j ; : and potential. Air 4 s^. l |jt^' J f uHd >said that the Empire’s-mfAEit'ary strength was five millions, hut where were they ? Certainly not. in . contacff with the enemy. commuted ‘that ■fronting the British Army in alt thea-tres-there were only gOO.OOOjGprnimI and Turks, of whom' the infantry and artillery .numbered half a million. “If ” he s 'said, “we have five million, it is evident that, after every conceivable deduction, ’a. large margin is not yet being usefully applied-for the prosecution of the war.

MILITARY SERVICE BILL PASSES THE LORDS. ’"(Kecei ved~ 1 oft p.m.) London, May 23: The House, of Lords parsed the Military 1 Vffh