"ALL'S WELL"

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 2

"ALL'S WELL"

jHR. ASQUITH'S REVIEW

$F ALL THENAR FRONT!

SIXT* THOUSAND PRISONERS

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HEADWAY M MESOPOTAMIA. ' .ho__i__ .Tnnr___:i___x-.-_ . .HEARTS. :.-: ,r • ] "-/ -":, (Renter's. Telegrams.) ] ——: . ] ■- '{Received 2.45 p.m.J *-~ 2-■':_■'. . ■. ._ i : - - '■.■■XONDON, October 11. ,-X the House of Commons to-day Mr. Aequith -' introduced •'" a -credit --vote -of •£300,000,000. Be. stated that since the Ist of April loans to the Dominions and the Allies amounted to -£253,000,000. ."We were exceeding, the estimate in that ! department,, but he'dii-jiot regret these i] loans, because no~jia'rt of the war ex- j penditure was more important. The war continued to cost '£5,000,000 ~ •daily. The. .Army had " slightly decreased, but' that for muni■tTons bad" increased. "' The amount "Tor"the war" was equivalent _to/-. the .previous.: twenty years' expenditure;-induding the South African - .War. ' -' ,_s"*e Alii „hnd :adyanced- 6even-iniles on* a -front- ut nine miles: on the Somme 1 , -*md all gains-had been held. The enemy's lesges ■were r "of the heaviest. They had ; practically abandoned the attack "on Verdun; The 'total Allied captures on 60,474" prisoners, 304 guns;s and 1,030 machinerguns. ':_ Real .headway was being "made in 'Mesopotamia, despite difficulties. The health of the- troops \ " - -_The Allies! -offensive.in Salonika had inetrwith "Considerable "success: - They ; were .within' eight-miles pf Monastir. . " "The British and "Belgians had occupied ; -the-., wbole-coastline of East Africa, the •complete conquest of-which "was -only-'a matterof "time.."" " r ~ "" """' -This wm "riot a moment for faint hearts prCwavering connselg,- All the." suffering *we .had could not he allowed "to^*en'_''watlr"-a, patched-upj ".-precarious, dishonouring gonipromise,. masquerading under ithe-name of peace. • They were not •vindictive, but -required adequate reparation, past and-security for .the future........ .:r~r ..'.""' -".': •"•.*.:*;.._■