Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-19
BONARLAWTELLSO OF FBRI7|SHWARCRED|TS
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Introduced Vote of Credit in the House of Commons Calling For 5OO0OO,- 900 Pounds Sterlng-Would Make Total War Credits Amount to 7,342, 900 Pounds.

government can express admiration and gratitude to the Italians for the share they have taken in the general struggle
 Speaking of the western front, MT. Bonar Law said that British and French headquarters knew the posi- tions to which the German divisions ment of the offensive on March. lie admitted that the attack had attained an amount of success which had caused the utmost anxiety.
 But" he added, three months have passed and although the battle is a continuous one, we can look back upon what has happened with some confi- dence.
 Tn this whole campaign the Ger mans have had before them three great objectives. One was Paris; an other was the channel ports; the third was not only the defeat, if they could achieve it, of the allied army, but the breaking of the communications be- tween the British and French forces. Although the allies have had to give much ground. not one of the enemy's strategic objects has been attained
 The offensive of March twenty first" he continued, "has brought about unity of command, which results have
 
 must be question of reserves. The great source of allied reserves is America, and it is undoubtedly part of the German scheme to use up the al- lied reserves before they can be rein forced from America. But in this they have not succeeded.
 T wish it were possible to tell the house the number of troops which since March 21. have been sent from this country to strengthen our own forces. It is a large number but, as l 1 have said, the main source of the al- | lied reserves is America
 Necessity has made possible what seemed Impossible. The American troops are not coming; they have come. America isn't coming into the war; she is in it.
 | T am sure that every member of the house realizes and is delighted to know that the American troops have been fighting and have justified the | high hopes which every one acquainted with the character of the American people formed of what the fighting value of thees troops would be. l 'Of course, I cannot give you num- bers. But the best way of making the house realize how big the change has been will be to read an extract from the minutes of the last supreme war council:
 Thanks to teh prompt and cordial cooperation of the president of the United States, arrangements which have been set on fcot for the trans portation and brigading of American troops will make it impossible for the l enemy to gain victory by wearing out the allied reserves, before he has ex- hausted his own."'
 The references to America were | loudly cheered
 The submarine menace a year ago appeared to be the greatest danger the allies had to cope wth, the chancellor said, and was regarded by the Ger mans. as a means to victory. All that was now changed, he declared. The shipping figures, which would be pub lished this week, would show that the worlds ship construction for the first time exceeded the destruction. There was no chance whatever, so far as hu- man foresight could divine, of the country being starved into submission and that consideration had an import an< effeft on the military position
 MT. Bonar Law again referred tc the intending stream of American troops coming across the water. an6 said it would continue until the whole man power of America, if necessary would be thrown into the scale What had already been done and had beer arranged for showed clearly that the extent of American military cooper. ation on the battle field of France would not be limited by transport, bu
 only by the number of trained mer available.
 That was the great fact of the pres ent year, and thus had the German } hope of nullifying American help in tht war been mistaken hope