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Brinoino America to the Br Nk of War~ D...tltt sxaut tVEDNESDAT, JU:r 5, 1911. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. LLOYD GEORGE SINGS MJ\CDERMOTT'S OLD SONG u WE'VE GOT MEN, WE'VE GOT THE SHIPS, WE'VE GOT THE MONEY, TOO." : ~HE a GUARANTEED DAILY NETI' SAlE MORE ntAN 1,000,000 COPIES. No. 1,920. : LONDON, \VEDKESDAY, MAY 5, 1915. [Registered aa a Newspaper.] ONE HALFPENNY-t BRINOINO AMERICA TO THE BR NK OF WAR~ The Gulftight• going down by the h ead . The crew had taken. to their boats, which were immediately launched after the torpedo hit the vessel. • . • the Gulfli ht into Port St. Mary's. The fate of the vessel and her crew. did not in the least concern the pirate;. Bnt1sh .""essels_ attempting to. tov;b a Germa~ submarine, has brought the United States nearer. to the bnnk o~ war than has any p:evwus mternatwnal The sfnking of the Gulfhght,, torped:>ed off Sctlly . Y thin less than "an act of war," and even Mr. Bryan admtts that the affa:r calls for an. explana~on from Germany. incident. Americans are saymg that the outrage ts n~ togrpedoed without warning and with one convulsiYe leap out of the water sank raptdly. The crew was taken . · ·1 f Texas to France \\as ' · h d' d th The G~lfhght, carrymg ot rom aboard' a patrol boat and landed at Penzance. Captam Gunther, owever, te on ! way. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. BUDGET: -TWO MILLION -A DAY WAR.. ' - AS WE DID DURING. THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. THE PERFECT BRITISH ARMY. MR ASQUITH-· · . American . Astonished By Our OPTIMIST. • Mr ALloY.d S George Tells How We 1 CURRENT YEAR'S REVENUE • I· f 1·ght1•0 g Men's Efficiency. "You ave Stemmed The Tide Of re p~nding Our Mogey. AnticipatedCustoms andrevenue Excise for .....ooming :............ yea-r £95,200,000 was:- NO NOISE.· NO FUSS ·, JUST DOING Aggression." Estate duties .............................. 28,0001000 · . HELP.lNG THE ALLIES. Stamp duties .............................. 6,500,000 THE JOB. Land Tax .................................... 660,000 Mr. William G. ,Shepherd, th, A.mcr,can MESSAGE TO THE EMPIRE. Land Valu€s Duties ..................... '350,000 journalist who is acting as corrtspon1ent, for the Further Sacrifices Necessary If The MisC€ilaneous .............................. 1,999,000 United Press with the Briti~h Army "' !~ } la'T}ders, Inc-ome and ::iupertax ............... 103,000,000 writes from the British Headquarters t pra.se of Appeal For The Mobilisation Of War Is Prolonged. Total Non-tax Revenue ............ 34,620,000 our efficiency:- Unused Reserves. Total Rev~mue .............. £270,332,000 I I have seeh the entire Briti ·h lin It i. the AJdr<:s~ i n£ a. meeting of retail traders and RECRUITING CHANGES. I!=:=================================:::::J.I stopper which Generalli'rench put into the neck representatives of trade- organisations at West­ pension of the new Sinking Fund would give them of the German bottle at the battle of Ypres when minster Palace HDtel yesterday on the question o More Munitions \Vorkers To Be £3,780,000, so that the deficit would be, in the caS€ the German tide began to pour Calai ward. of releasing men .Df military age in the retail dis­ · Enlisted In 1 he Army. oOf a six months' war, £514,346,000; and in th€ case - Whatever is ahead, the army of General ~-: i r tributing traue for service with the Force-.:, Mr. of a twelve months' war £862,322,000. There were no startling surprises in The financing -of such a gigantic sum was a grave John French is ready f.or it.. It is a good army. Asquith declared himself an optimi.'t v. here the Mr. Lloyd George's Budget statement operation -even for such a rich country as ours. The first thing that strikes you about the war is concerned. He said:- In war the difficulties of financing gr€at opera­ British Army is its quiet men. It dawns on an There are always to be found in time ._ of crisis in the House of Uommons yesterday. tions affected England and Germany differently. American slowly tbat, in the mind of an EngliBh those who are ready to think and to proclaim to the commWlity th~t to c~m;un~nd wh~t has been Income-tax payers will be relieved to Two millions of our best men were in the Army and Army man, uoise: fuss and Pfficiency do not go and is being done 1s to mmmu~e or disparage !hE> Navy, and anoth~r two millions were turning out ever-growing urgen<'y of e1:p~ndmg and completmg together. learn that for the present there is to munitions and equipment, so that we had to buy the organisation of the natiOnal power: The orgamsation of the prest.nt British Army is · My message, if I could frame . one at this mo.ment. be no new taxation beyond the new largely from abroad. to the nation :md to the Em1nre would be Pitched Our imports had increa.;ed enormously, and our perfect. An American is apt to be misled by the in quite a different key. I should ~ay to them one ·spirit., wine and beer duties-and the lack of noise and fuss. But careful observation will and all :- · . b . exports had gone down v~ry c-onsiderably. You haye made a magmficent ('gmmng. Yon beer duty is suspended until Tuesday In Germany practically both imports and exports soon dispel any doubts as to the state -of efficiency have stemmed the tide of aggresdon. Yon have had been cut off, and the grip was tightening every of General French's Army. shown a spirit and strength worthy of the be t week. Some people think it will never On the battle ground of N e,.n·e Chapelle the fields · traditions of your race. Proceed in the same direc­ day. tion and in the ame temper. be imposed. are dotted with small white signal boards. They Everv breach in your fir!lt line ha~ been made The margin of our imports over exports in an were placed there long before the battle to show good. 'There are still in reserve unu:•ed and, to the But the Chancellor made some ordinary year was 130 millions. regiments where to go when the battle began. enemy, nn ·w peeted reserves. But you mnEt The margin of imports over exports this year was I noticed many short ladders in the trenches mobilise and organi. e to the full. very interesting statements relating to £448,000,000, and that did not include Goverp..m.ent which the British had left when th€y rushed on I am not the lea8t ashamed to call myself an optimist. Not that I underrate or ha;e e.-~r en­ • Britain's tremendous share ]n the cost purchases abroad, nor the pmchase::~ of our AlliP.s Neuve Chapelle. couraged my countrymen by any word of mme to abroad, which we had to finance. " We made lots of those ladders and put them pf the war. into our trenches so that our men· could climb out We are rendc ring our Allies the same IT CAN BE DON .E. quickly when the charge began/' explained an We had to raise 1,100 millions of money for fin­ officer. service we rendered in the Napoleonic ancing operations of war. We had to find between On the battlefield one sees small bridges placed 300 and 400 millions f-or purchases abroad. over ditches so narrow that any soldier could jump wars-financing them in· their pu·r­ The problems were not insuperable if the nation them with ease. They were for the men to use. General French didn't want any wa~te motions or th~ war~ had the temper and the necessary unity to face ·chases for carrying on them. What was in his,judgment the o0nly straight­ waste exertions in that battle. · We ar~ doing this ·(the Chancellor forward and reliable course which would help us NO CIQARET..TE SWANK. through the war, and what was still more important ~<We're going to do this in the best way it can said) for the obvious reason th"t the to see that we were not damaged after the war was be done," h€ said. Allies are all working together', and ~ depend m-ore largely on the income of the The result -of this quiet efficiency was that Neuve country. Chapelle fell · in one hour and a half instead of e~ch has got to put his best in. The income of this country in times of peace Within ten hours, the time that had been was two thousand four hundr-ed millions. calculated. The best services we could give (he We were spending hundreds of millions of bor­ The self-possession of the British officer some­ explained) were : rowed money here. The result was that the inoome times almost passes belief. It is especially mark€d of the country at the present moment was probably amo0ng the British aviators. The old-time flying I . Maintain complet command of the higher than in times of peace. man smoked so many cigarettes to prove that he ea. was . cool and collected that cigarettes, as used by HINT ABOUT WAR PROFITS. aviators, became a joke. The British flying man __ 2. Maintain a great army and put the He haJ no doubt it would be perfectly just when doesn't try to prove his ooolness. He is cool, and whole population in the field. they came to consider (if they ev:er had to do it) th.at's all th-ere is to it; he doesn't oversmo0ke .
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