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Show GREAT BRITAIN'S LOANSJO ALLIES Can Be Easily Borne With Capital and Labor Working Together. LONDON. Nov. 13, via Montreal. In discussing the financial situation in the house of commons yesterday Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, said that Great Britain had loaned to her allies in the war more than 1,463,000,000 and to the Dominions 218,000,000. Great Britain's debts abroad are not expected to exceed 1,000,000,000. The country could easily bear this, the chancellor added, if labor and capital worked harmoniously together. The chancellor praised the part taken In the war by the Dominions and India, lie said the Dominions had fought for the empire "which Is as much theirs as ours," and not for the mother country. In answer to a question by Donald Mac-Master, Mac-Master, the chancellor said that the Dominions Do-minions were not represented at the armistice armi-stice because obviously, as a whole, the Dominions could not possibly be there. The government promised definitely that the Dominions would share fully in the peace negotiations. Mr. Bonar Law . Bald it was believed that with the exception of one clause, where President Wilson was not absolutely absolute-ly distinct, everything which the allies ever asked for could be claimed by the fourteen points enunciated by the president. |