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Show win Fiiicts SOLVED BY U. S., SAYS BDNAR LAW House of Commons Hears From Chancellor a Public Pub-lic Acknowledgment of American Aid. INCREASE IS ASKED IN VOTE OF CREDIT More Money Needed to Maintain Larger Force and to Facilitate Move-' Move-' ment of Troops. LONDON. Oct. 20. Andrew Bonar T.a 1 rhaueellor of the exchequer, in moving a jvote of credit in the house of commons today for 400.000,000. said this amount would supply tJio necessary funds up to the first week in January next. "From the beginning of the fiscal year to September 29." he said, "the daily average expenditure had been 6,6-iS,00O, an increase of 1,257,000 over the budget estimate. The im-reas was made up under the following: header Army and navy. 000,0 CK: miscellaneous services, SOS.OOO; ad cm ices lo I ho allies and dominions, 31.000." The credit today brings the total lon.ns for the year to l.MO.0uo.0O0 and the total since the beginning of the war to 5,602,000.000. "I a.rn Rlad to be able to take this opportunity op-portunity of saving how much reason not only the British, but all the allied governments gov-ernments have-for appreciating the very generous way in which the United States government lias come to their assistance Tn financing purchases In America," said the chancellor. Difficult Problem. "It is an open secret that until America came into the war the method of fmanc- ing our purchases there and the question of exchange were not only serious problems, prob-lems, but In my opinion, almost insoluble problems. "The fact that America, has given generous gen-erous assistance at times when she was incurring expenditure at a heavier rate than any of the allies I believe it my duty publicly to acknowledge." I The increased pay of soldiers and eall- ors and the subsidizing of the loan, the chancellor said, would amount to between 40,000.0i0 and 50.000,000 in the second : part of the financial year. German taxation, the chancellor declared, de-clared, had been increased bv more than lSn,000.000, but. that sum fell short by ! 53. 000,000 of Hie Interest on the war ; debt. Daily Average. In the period from July 22 to September Sep-tember 22. the chancellor said, the daily average expenditure of Great Britain for war purposes was 6,414,000. He did not. however, wish the house to take too favorable a view of the figures given, but wished to point out that so fax as could be judged the position in the second half of the year from the viewpoint of dead weight . expenditure would not be quite as favorable as the first half. That was mainly due to the fact that the government gov-ernment had fixed the loaf at nine pence and had decided to increase very largely ; (Continued on Page Three.) FINANCES SOLVED BY U.S.,1L1 (Continued from Pag One.) the pay of the soldiers and sailors. These items would add between 40,000,000 and 50.000,000 to the dead weight expenditures expendi-tures in the second half or" the year. The chancellor continued: With regard to the increase in the dead weight expenditure as com-pn com-pn rerl with - the budget estimate, riRmplr, 43,iiOO,000, nearly the whole of it is due to increased expenditure by the war office, which has accounted ac-counted for 39,01)0,000, leaving 4,-500,000 4,-500,000 divided equally between munitions mu-nitions and the navy. Cause of Increase. The chief cause of the Increase Is to be found in the rise of the price of commodities, the extent of the forces we are keeping1 abroad the number of men we have abroad has Increased since the budget estimate was made; our aviation program, which has accounted for a considerable consider-able amount by reason' of Increased personnel, but not including airplanes, air-planes, which come under munitions: the larger number of Indian troops In Mesopotamia, and, finally, the forward for-ward movement made by our troops in Flanders- This has meant Increased In-creased expenditure for more railways, rail-ways, bridges, etc. The gap between what -was our railway line of communication com-munication and the extent of our advance ad-vance had to be filled by motor trenp-port. trenp-port. the Increased pay for this amounting during the half year to ".,000.000. On September 29 the national debt stood at 6,000,000,000. But from this sum we are- entitled to deduct the amount advanced to our aJlies and the dominions. This sum, In the case of the allies, was 1,100, -000.000, and in the case of the dominions do-minions 160,000,000. Gift of India. We also are entitled to deduct part of the ffift of the government of India In-dia to the empire for the war. The gift amounted to 100,000,000, but of that amount something like 14,-000,000 14,-000,000 has been treated as revenue. The Indian government, however, haa taken the responsibility for the biU-a biU-a nee. The total to be deducted, . therefore, is 1,336.000,000. The national debt at the outbreak of the war whs 4r, 000,000. there-lorn there-lorn the debt due to the war Is actually actu-ally billlpns. Contrasting the "British and German financial positions, Mr. Bonar Law said votes of credit totaling 4,700,000,000 had heen passed by the reichstag, which did not include advances to Germany's allies nor the expenditure for separation allowances, which were Included In Great Britain's vote of credit. "Our war expenditure, therefore," said the chancellor, "Is 1,700.000 less than ( lermuny's. Germany's increased war taxa tion has fallen short by 55,000,000 of the interest on her debt. While we cjinnot bear the Htraln indefinitely, it will not be want of money that will pre vent us from winning the war, because we can bear the strain longer than our enemies." Washington Informed. WASHINGTON. Orrt. 3-.'. Andrew Bonar Law's declaration in the house of commons that war alms w iU not be dis-cuB3cd dis-cuB3cd at the corning allied conference and that only quefitiona pertinent to tlx1 IroBv:uiioQ of the war will be taken up agree with the understand I ng nf the United States government. A definition ana co-ordination of military effort is the chief oh.lect, made more timely by results re-sults oi the Austro-Gtrman drive in Italy. One predominant question concerns food and supplier whether for soldiers or civilians, and ho v. to get them to the right place In the quickest possible time. The effect of the war on the politics of the world are to have no pl;..ce In the deliberations, and the present political situation in any country will be considered consid-ered only in the light of military necessity. neces-sity. Thus the Internal conditions of Russia and Ttaly and the measure of men and food and munitions to le given these countries will be taken up as military problems. |