THE COST OF WAR.
LONDON, July 21. The Earl of Meath, in the House of Lords, suggested that everyone receiving over a certain salary should be compelled to accept a portion of the war loan. The Marquis of Crewe said that the war would he in vain if the defence expenditure of £80,000,000 a year were perpetual. Only the most sanguine expected an immediate reduction, but lie hoped that a new spirit in Europe would lead to a progressive reduction in the armies of the Powers. He urged personal economy in dutiable articles, fruits, sugar, tea, wine tobacco, luxuries, silks, motor cars and petrol. It would he impossible to fix rules for economy. The spirit of the country could not properly be sustained without some forms of relaxation and amusement, and he did not suggest the closing of theatres and picture palaces.
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Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13232, 23 July 1915, Page 6
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