LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL OF FINANCE.

TWELVE MONTHS' DOINGS.

JBRITISH TROOPS' SUPERIORITY PROVED.

GERMANY'S MILITARY MIGHT GROUND FINE

%(Reuter ServiceO

6 LONDON, July 7In the House of Commons, replying "to many complaints as to lack of Parliamentary control of finance, Mr -Bonar Law stated that a select committee would be appointed to coasider how control was best obtainable, also to examine tthe expenditure of Government departments. Mr Bonar Law announced that the duties of .the -Chancellorship of the Exchequer did not allow him to devote the necessary time to the War Cabinet, and that probably an additional member would be appointed. Reviewing events in the ttwelve months since the British definitely vssumed the offensive, Mr Robinson, the war correspondent, says: "Since a year ago we measured our half-grown strength and untried troops ."against the perfected German military machine we ha.ye seen our new men prowe themselves not once, but a hundred times, superior. Our new armies have taken 70,000 prisoners (including 800 officers), •450 guns, and 2000 machine guns, representing the capture of an .army of :|en German divisions with its equip:^nent. So many German <3ivisions nave been thrown in again and again that the total number exceeds the total divisions of Germany's military ■organisation. In effect the entire military might has passed through the mill, and has been ground fine. The new army has won much ground, a hundred Villages, and endless strongholds and redoubts. But the •geographical gain is immaterial. The task set was not winning acres, but "breaking the German armies, which con•sidered themselves invincible. We are confident 'that our new armies are better men and better commanded than ■the armies against them."