The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-15
ENGLAND

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
4 .>%DON, Sept. IS. -England's
~ expenditure for war purposes 10
A exceeding the widest dreams Of
5 .ancial experts. !. ST.
In moving a new war credit Of $f-
250,ooo,OOO today, Premier Asquith
announced that the daily average ex-
pendlture from July 18 to September
II was $21 100000. At the start Of
the war, flnanciers who estimated
that England would have to spend
$40, 100000 daily, were scoffed at.
Tho cost Is mounting higher every
day. For the first seventeen days Of
july the average daily expense was
$15,es2,941 Premier Asquith told par
lament. In speech on May 4, David
Lloyd George declared. that the war
up to that time had cost England
about $1o,500, 600 day.
Tho war cost for the next few
weeks Will mount still higher, Pre-
mier Asquith told the house Of COM
3honse, approaching $25,ooo,ooo day.
The appropriation asked today, he de-
clared, will last only until the third
week In November. The prime min
lster's statement caused sensation
because It announced the cost Of war
to England is doubling evev four
months. It was pointed out that with
English munitIon factories only be-
ginning to speed UP their production
and with the number Of troops In the
field only now approaching the maxi
unheard Of figures.
The main cause OF fhe surprising
Increase in war expenditures, Pre-
nt> l. "a he - 80 $ka ~
England was making great advances
buying provisions and munitions.
These things, he said, were needed
to complete the war program and the
country still stood In need Of more la
borers, women, as we'll as men.
"Our positions In France and F'an-
ders have been strengthened" said
the prime minister. 1--WE have dis
patched reinforcements to the Dardan-
elies, where our connected front now
exfends for more than, tsselvo mica
sin tho east, the Russians ire being
pressed back, but their retreat has
been conducted in mastsrly fashion,
their arnie sunbroken. Victory 10
likely to incline to the side able to
arm best and stay longest In the con-
flict. That; the allies intene TO do"
Z Asquith declared that since the war
began nearly three million men have
enlisted In the British armies. But
he said In recent weeks the eniIstin9
has shown signs Of falling OF.
Victory In the world war, the Eng
tlish prime minister told commons,
will come to the side which 10 able
and continues to pursue the war re-
oardIees Of cost. In this worlds
greatest test Of endurance, he said,
the allies with their combined re-
sources, are bound to win.
ToRPEDoED AND SUNK.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 15.-The Nor.
wegian steamer Tortor Norte has been
torpedoed and sunk In the North sea.
Her crew was saved.
The cost is mounting higher every
cAssoN lNJURED.
LONDON, Sept. 15-BrigadIer Gen.
eraI n. .. Casson has been wounded
at the DardaneIIes. His name was in
cIuded in list Of seventeen officers
killed or wounded on GallipoIi penin-
sula made public today.
100000 At FRONT.
= LONDON, Sept. 15.-Lord Kitchener
announced in the house Of lords this
afternoon that eleven divisions (about
22o,O 900 men) have been added to the
British forces In France and Flanders.
Lord Landsdowne announced on
July 13 that the British forces In
France and Flanders numbered be-
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