Show ENGLAND PREPARES TO STARVE GERMANI WILL CLAMP ON ALL SEA PRES prea SURE AT HER COMMAND TO STOP FOOD SUPPLY churchill announces announce that expenses Ex pene during current year will reach ten billion dollars dollar and that losses lodicea are arc heavy london the countries fighting against germany austria and turkey up to the present time have thrown only a third of at their strength into the field to maintain this force forca and to bring the remaining two thirds into action will coat 0 during the current year this announcement was made in ten teh house of commons on monday by david lloyd george chancellor ot of the exchequer who with winston spencer churchill first lord ot of the admiralty gave the british public perhaps a closer view of the machinery behind the great struggle than any that has been afforded since the outbreak 0 of f the war mr churchill declared amid cheering that great britain finally had decided to clamp on every ounce of sea cea pr pressure esaure to choke off germanys germanas Germ anys a food supply la in for the german submarine policy while mr lloyd george drew additional cheering by a reference to loans to countries which he said fie be expected to throw in their lot with the allies these countries the chancellor did not name it was waa the llast time that a reference was vas made in parliament to such expectations the announcement of the governments decision with relation to ger banys food supplies came almost coincidently dently with the receipt of two dispatches from tho the united states one saying that count von bernstorff the german ambas ambassador sidor had bad informed the washington government that germany was willing to abandon her submarine policy provided great britain ceased interfering with cargoes of df foodstuffs and the other saying that be again had advised neutral shipping to avoid those waters which a germany onlan had declared would become a dangerous ger military area mr churchill disclosed for the first time the total naval losses us as the result of the war these he said were upward of officers and men a majority of them vict victims lins of submarines |