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Show Premier Lloyd George I Tells House War Cost I Forty Billion Pounds Change From War to Peace Conditions Will Take Just a Long as Change From Peace to War Alarming Ad verse Trade Balance First Outstanding Fact to Be Faced. I LONDON", Aug 18 Tho war cost forty billion pounds, Premier Lloyd George declared in his speech in the house of commons today on the finan ieial and industrial situation Most ot this sum was spent for purposes of i destruction. He asserted that the change from war to peace conditions would take I just as lone us th chance from peace to- war The first outstanding fact ot tho present situation was the alarm' inc ad verso trado balance, he said. The import restrictions which will terminate September 1, he said, had ivon British manufacturers an oppoN tunity of making a doal in goods whicH otherwise would have been hurriefl hero from foreign countries. The national dobt ho declared, ha4 grown from (41,00T,000 pounds to lA 8001,000,000 pounds. |