Arizona republican., 1917-05-10
bONAR LAW TELLS
 OF GREAT GROWTH : IF WARS BURDEN
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e LONDON, May 9.-The tremendous growth of the financial burden of the world war was illustrated today in amazing figures by Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, who asked parliament for new credit of ( 50O,- 100000.
 The chancellor himself characterized the figures as alarming" Delivering his budget statement a week ago, MT. Bonar Law estimated the daily cost of the war at e6,25OOO0. Today he has to announce that the daily expenditure was nearly G7,500,000, of which G2,- 000.0 .0O0 represents advances to Great Britain's allies and dominions
 The chancellor took occasion to re- fer to the valuable material assistance the United States already was render ing and the energy with which Wash ington government had entered into the war.
 T would like to say one word about the entry of the United States into the war" began Mir. Bonar Law in this connection.
 All the information we have re- ceived bears out what could have been expressed in advance, that the Ameri- can people are not likely to do any thing bd halves and that the United
  not only that they are prepared to or ganize the full strength of the nation, but that they realize to the full value of immediate assistance. The assist ance which they already have given, in addition to financial assistance, is as sistance which is of the greatest value and which will become increasingly i'm portant as the weeks advance.
 T am inclined to say something about the mission to the United States. I don't believe in saying anything in praise of my colleagues, but l am gO- ing to make an exception. MT. Bal four. as every one who has worked with him knows, has from the begin ming of the war regarded himself as soldier whose duty it was to undertake any task he was called upon to fulfill. It was in that spirit that the premier asked him without a moments hesita- tion, to agree to undertake the mis- sion. and I venture to say no service in his public life has been greater to the state than that rendered by him in con- nectiOn with this mission
 Reviewing the British operations at the front Mir. Bonar Law revealed that the Germans had intended to retire from the whole of the region between Arras and Soissons, but that they were forestalled by the rapidity of the Britisb attack and were unable to make their intended withdrawal. He spoke with enthusiasm of the success of the British ment from what he described as "the hysterical anxiety displayed in the German official communication to bol- ster the courage of the German people by reports of absolutely imaginary vic tories"
 Comparing the Arras and Somme battle he said the British had taken four times the amount of territory in the Arras advance as compared with the advance on the Somme while their casualties were from 50 to 75 per cent less. There were double the number of German divisions opposed to the Brit lSh on the Arras front as compared to the Somme front, half of which already had been withdrawn out of the fight ing line and sent into the reserve He added that the recent British successes were largely due to the excellent artil- lery and air services, both of which were greatly superior to those of the Germans. Chancellor Bonar Law told the house of commons that there was unfortunately considerable unrest among certain sections of the engineer ing trade. The government was told that this unrest arose mainly from the activities of men who appeared to be as much interested in upsetting the au- thOrity of established trades unions as in causing trouble to the nation in time of war. The agitation, he said, was disowned and reprobated by the trades unions.
 The chancellor added that any action which the government felt to tbe nec- essary must be taken without delay against those responsible for this in- reference with the output of muni- tions so urgently required by the troops
 The debate following Chancellor Bo- mar Laws statement continued the whole evening, many members criticiz- ing the conduct of the war and the failure to cope with the submarine campaign. An interesting point was the revelation by George Lambert, former civil lord of the admiralty, that Pre- mier Lloyd George had offered him a post in the government, which he had refused because he was dissatisfied with the manner in which the admiral ty was dealing with the submarines and the national policy generally He had written to the prime minister, he said, that the naval position was full of peril and that the government ought to publish the full facts about subma- rlne war. Some day the public would wake up to the gravity of the situa- tion and then there would be panic.
 John Dillon also strongly criticized the conduct of the war. especially in the Balkans, where, he declared, "deplorable mess" has been made He complained that the situation in Greece was going from bad to worse.
 Mr. Ponar Law in a general reply.