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Show COMMONS VOTES CREDIT FOR THE CONDUCT OF 1R Seventh Bill, Carrying $1,-250,000.000, $1,-250,000.000, Acted Upon After an Exhaustive Statement by Premier. TOTAL AMOUNT NOW OVER SIX BILLIONS Some of the Items, Said to Be Abnormal, Not Disclosed; Dis-closed; Daily Expenditures Expendi-tures Increasing. tSpffia OfcblN : rang men' with London DallJ T- . . ; Inttroai1oni N : vie. ) LONDON. Sept, 15. The credit of Sl.2AO.000.000 asked for by Premier Pre-mier A-sqiiith to cany on the war to the middle of November was form ally voted by the house of commons ! tonight. When a motion for ad jourrunent was made. Foreign Undersecretary Un-dersecretary Cecil stated that Germany Ger-many had made no peace proposals, nor could he imagine any being made at the present time, which would be acceptable to the allies. LOSpON, Sept 15. 3:25 p. m. The 1 .e entb vote of credit sin-c the oui 1 bred; of the war. bringing up the total to l.26J00,000 (t6..11,u00.O00), w moved in the house of cWimons thi afternoon by Premier Asqutth. The amount 8!keil for today was 250,000. - 000 (1,250.0X.000.) The premier aUo annouine.i that nearly 3,000,000 men had enlisted. He made this statement in reviewing the dnaAfial ani nnlitary situation", so tar as military exigencies permitted ; but this requirement necessitated in many iustaziees only vague references to the trend of events. The growing expenditures for the war were emphasized by the premier, lie said the average daily cost from April 1 to the end of June waa 3,00i,0OO; from July 18 to September II. 3,500. OttO. Thus th total for this period in round figures is 500.000,000. There has been repaid 50,000.n00 to the Bank of England; 30,000,000 haft been lent to foreign governments, and 2,000f-006 2,000f-006 loaned to the dominions. Some Abnormal Items. omparinu actual expenditures si nee th last vote of credit with estimates. Mr. Asquith said there had been some abnormal items to disclose, whi-'h would not be in the public interest, but the house might take it that thesrt were expenditures ex-penditures incurred for the purpose of financing necessary operations. Part of this amount was to be repaid in a few months, and tbo remainder represented advances for future expenditures. Mr. Asquith estimate that the weekly PT05-S expenditures henceforth would not exceed 33,000.000. It was his opinion that the new vote would rarry the country through to Hie third week of November. "Thse fcgures throw some light, in man;.' terms, on the contribution wp ar making to the war," lie continued. "T do not wish to say even tliat we are doing all we can, all we ought, but as attempts at-tempts are constantly being made with, whatever intention, but with the most mischievous effort, to belittle and discourage dis-courage our efforts. I give some comparisons compari-sons between peace and war figures. .3,000,000 Men Enlist. "Since the outbreak of the war. it will 1 be found, an aggregate of not far short 1 of 3,000.000 men have enlisted hn the army and navy. Recruiting on the whole has J kept up well, but, I regret to say, in the I last few weeks ban been falling off." Regarding the work of tho munitions department, the premier said all that was now necessary to complete tills great nnd necessary task was an adequate supply of labor, unskilled as much as skilled. There was no field wherein women could do more useful work. The minister of munitions had established twenty shell factories, and eighteen ' more were in course of construction. In all, 715 controlled con-trolled establishments were under the department. de-partment. In these factories, he said. SOO.000 workmen were now employed, and the cou n t ry had vast! y ex eeed ed an y sta nda id dreamed of before the WS r. Reviewing the mil Mary situation. Mr. As'iuith stated that In France and Flan-der Flan-der the posit ion Of the British troops had been strengthened everywhere by large reinforcements of men and munitions, muni-tions, and that thero had been a considerable consid-erable extension of lines taken over from the French. Gains in Dardanelles. In tho 1 ard;inelles, he continued, the British had made substantial gains, through l hey had not succeeded in dislodging dis-lodging the Turks from the crest of the hills. The British now hold a front of more than twelve miles. In the east, Mr, Asuuith said, the Rus- ( Continued on Page Two.) CiMOffi PASSES II BIG SUPPLY MEASURE (Continued from Page One.) sian army remains unbroken- He asserted assert-ed that the superiority of the Germans was only in artillery and that their objective ob-jective was still far out of reach. "They, succeeded In forcing hack the line of our gallant ally and taking several fortresses," he continued, "but all accounts ac-counts show that the Russian retreat is being conducted in a masterly fashion and that the Russian army is still unbroken. The assumption of supreme command by the czar is the most significant proof that could be given of the unalterable determination, deter-mination, fiom highest to lowest, of the Russian people." Mr. Asqukh said that the total of Britain's Brit-ain's loans to other belligerents was 250,000,000. He referred to ttie high total of casualties cas-ualties and said the proportion of those who recovered from wounds was large. "This is a war of mechanism, organization, organi-zation, endurance." he said. "Victory seems likely to incline to the side that can arm itself best and stay longest. That Is what we mean to do." The premier deprecated all recrimination. recrimina-tion. "Our business is to deal with the present pres-ent and forecast and provide for the future." fu-ture." he said. "We have satisfied the legitimate requirements and hopes of our allies, and we have to discharge . the unique burden imposed upon a family of free people by. our own sense of responsibility responsi-bility and our standard of ddty and sacrifice." sac-rifice." Opposes Strife. One thing Mr. Asauith opposed was "the sinister spirit of domestic strife." "We must all be ready to give and take, and take and give," lie said, "and it must not be said that in the greatest moment of our history our arm was shorn of its strength by any failure on the part of either rulers or ruled to concentrate con-centrate upon the unexampled task the conseient counsels. undivided energies and unbreakable, indomitable will of the British people. "The situation is a testing one. A survey sur-vey of the past year calls for satisfaction at the great efforts and sacrifices made and for regret that some mistakes and miscalculations have been. made. Today we realize more clearly, through the mists of sophistry and mendacity in which Berlin Ber-lin seeks to obscure and befoul the international in-ternational atmosphere, the sincerity of our own diplomacy and the passionate love of peace wherewith we sought to avert the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict. "It was the imperious call of duty which forced us to vindicate our national honor and enlist our whole strength in the sacred cause of freedom. I have no doubt either' of the wisdom of oirf choice or of its ultimate triumph on lite stricken strick-en field." After Mr. Balfour had spoken the de-hate de-hate turned on conscription. John Dillon, Dil-lon, nationalist for East Mayo, vehemently vehement-ly denounced it. He said that Pitt had tried It during the Napoleonic wars with success, but it would be madness to try the experiment again, especially before the covin try was thoroughly informed on the matter. He declared that for far less than Lord Northcliffe had done, Irishmen iiad been sent to jail; if it were not for Lord Northcliffe's title, power and connections he would have been sent to jail long ago. L.eo George Ch'fozza Money. liberal, maintained that under the voluntary system, sys-tem, tlie country would never have enough men and munitions to win the war. There was great danger, he said, of underrating the economic resources of the enemy. Last month Germany had produced more pig iron than in any month since the war started. In the fourteenth month of the war, he contended, contend-ed, Germany was stronger than at the beginning. Calls It Innovation. Stephen Walsh, laborite, said that SO per cent of the members of the house of commons elected to support the voluntary vol-untary system before abandoning it for conscription. There must be overwhelming overwhelm-ing and unassailable evidence, be declared, de-clared, to support the innovation. Josiah C. Wedgwood, liberal, urged the government to appoint a strong war office in order to prepare a scheme of conscription, the necessity of which, during dur-ing the course of the war, has been abundantly demonstrated. David Marshall Mason, liberal, regarded regard-ed the utter -"'crush in a- of Germany as a military impossibility. He expressed disappointment dis-appointment that the premier's speeches did not give" some hope of an honorable and earlv termination of the war. He thought the house was entitled to a more definite declaration of the government's govern-ment's policy than it had yet received. On motion for adjournment, Mr. Mason raised the question concerning a report that Germany had made peace overtures. over-tures. Lord Robert Cecil, undersecretary for foreign affairs, replied that Germany had made no peace proposals, nor could he imagine any being made at the present pres-ent time, which would be acceptable to the allies. |