, 1915-07-24

lures from the fun IL ON hAnd. II
brings the sum actually appropriate
tor war expenditures to n total OF
six hundred and fifty million pounds
during the current financial year, making
with the amount voted between August fifth
last year and March this year a grand total
OF l ,0l2, 000, 600 pounds, exceeding thHt OF tho
twenty one ears war ending with Waterloo.
MIR. Asquith announced that for the first
seventeen days Of this month the war eXpcn-
diture was hfty-four million pounds and that
the rate Of expenditure showed u daily ten
dencv to rise. He emphasized the omission
of the usual limitation on loans or grants to
other than His Mujesty's Domluions md Pc
trctorates or the Allied Powers and added,
eve think it desirable in the existing sltua-
ton that we should hnve rather wider pow
ers in respect to countries OF states 10 which
advances may possibly be made,
The DAILY News" iufers from the fore
going that there are prospects Of Greece,
Roumauin and Bulgaria joining the war on
the side Of the Entente Powers.
Mr.. Montagu, Financial Secretary to the TreA-
sury, announced in the House of Commons
that in order to put the finances of The couu-
try on a satisfactory basis 1t would be neces
sury to increase taxation before the end OF
the present year.
The Welsh coal strike bus been settled,
practically upon the terms Of the strikers,
except that the arrangement is for the period
Of The war and six months RtterwNrds, IN
stead Of for three years. Mr.. Lloyd George
addressed the men and reminded them that
the French colllrrs were now awaiting car
goes Mt Cardiff and IA precious week had
been lost. He asked them to make up for
lost time and Hhew the French democracy
their readiness t. assist in the struggle tor
the world's freedom, adding Il Atm Mortified
at anything like q quarrel between ourselves
when we need all our strength against tho
foe md to supp IT the men we have sent to
the trenches. The miners eheered wildly
and two hundred thousand resumed forth
with.
The agreemept provides that neither
side is to be- penAlized tor the strike and
apparently the Munitions Act has been
forgotten.
Dispatches from Rotterdam state that tho
German Humanity League has issued II man
ifesto denying any conspiracy against Ger
many, Aud adding: "The Allied armies are
the guardians Of humanity and only through
their victory shall we ourselves be erntnci-
pated from the cursed yoke Of Pru4aiau mill
tarism. Before the war everywhere the
German flag WAS respected but o.dHy It IN
the badge Of our iufAmy, and to their last
hours the Kaiser, Admiral Won TirpltZ and
Dt. Won BethmAnn HoIlweg will curry the
brand OF shame for the ruin and misery they
have brought upon the world. therefore We
earnestly appeal 90 Every Democratic Sax N.
BavsriAn, Wurtemberger and Hanoveri"n to
JOIN with al who realize the uuspeakIble
crime Of this uuprovoked war and demand
the evacuation OF Brabant, Flanders and
LuxembnrK and the cessation OF the bloody
outrage Of Alssce and Lorraine"
In the House of Commons. Sir William
Byles asked whether, considering the ponce
movement OF the German Socialists. Mr. A.
Quith would restato the objects for winch
England was fighting, in the hope OF nttnck-
ing them other than by warfare. Mr.. As
quith answered that he had nothing to ndd
to his previous statements.
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