The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
English Premier Tells Com
mons This Is Not Time
for Faltering Purpose
GREAT WAR MUST GO
ON UNTIL VICTORY
In Asking Vote on War Credit Min
lister Claimed Expenditures Are Be-
ing Kept Within Estimate of 81
000,00 Pounds Daily

London, October u.-"This is no time
Tor faltering counsel or wavering pur-
pose" said Premier Asquith in address
ing the House of Commons today. This
war cannot be allowed to end in some
patched up, precarious and dshonoring
compromise masqueradins under the
name of peace
mo one desires to prolong for a sin
gle moment longer than is necessary the
tragic spectacle of bloodshed and destruc-
ton. but We owe it to those who have
given their lives that their supreme sac
rifces shall not have been unavailing.
AIMS NOT SELFISH
The ends of the allies are well known.
They have been frequently stated, they
are not selfish. they are not indicative,
they require adequate reparation for the
past and adequate security for the fu-
ture''
The House cheered the premier loudly
as he made the remarks concluding his
address, after moving a vote of credit
for 1900, 10000 bringing up the total for
the current financial year to G., $50, 0oO. =
COO
Parliament, said the premier, had been
asked to vote for war purposes what was
equivalent to the aggregate expenditure
for 90 years before the war, although
that period included the south African
credit in July he estimated the average
rate of expenditure at approximately 95,-
100000 daily. That forecast had proved
almost exactly correct.
At the commencement of the present
week. the premier continued, there was
still in hand G100, 10000, which would
carry on until October II. He gave the
aggregate expenditure in 113 days Of the
financial year as:
Army, navy and munitions. Gs79, 10000;
loans to allies and dominion, 21570co.0oo,
| food supplies. railways, etc, 933, 900 900.
| The daily average Of expenditures had
risen slightly, he said and was ,00C
| for the last n days of the financial year.
| Expenditures for the army had fallen
off slightly. while those for munitions
! had increased. Loans to Great Britain s
allies and domnions were exceeding the
| budget estimate at the present rate.
They would not be safe in assuming that
expenditures in the future would be less
than e5.0O0000 daily.
PROGRESS OF WAR
Surveying the progress of the war since
the last vote of credit, the premier said
he thought the weather had hampered
10 a. 40 I'm
that in Mesopotamia substantial progress
had been made with rail and river com
munlcations. The defeat of the Turks
east of the Suez canal had gone far
to remove the danger of attack on the
canal, and had impaired Turkish pres
tige in Arabia and Syria. In western
Egypt the Senussi tribesmen had been
reduced to impotence. The allied armies
on the SalonilSi front had inflicted heavy
losses on their opponents and prevented
them from transferring troops to Dob
rudja, thus rendering valuable assistance
to Russia and Rumania
| The whole of the German East African
coast had been offered, the premier con-
tinued, and the complete conquest of the
colony was only matter of time
HOLDING ALL GAINS
| In the west, Mr.. Asquith said, the
French and British had advanced a dis
lance of seven miles a front of nine
\ niles, but most important feature OF
| the advance was that in no case had a
counter attack succeeded in driving them
| back. The Germans had virtually aban-
| doned the attack on Verdun and their
/, losses had been very heavy. He gave
! the total numer of prisoners taken by
| the allies on the Somme front as 60474
| in addition to which there had been cap
| tured 304 guns and 1000 machine guns
/ Allied aircraft, he added, had attained
| complete mastery of the Germans,
Premier Asquith referred to the com
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