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BRITAIN'S FINANCIAL

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A TAPESTRIED GERMAN DUG.OUT. INDEBTEDNESS LESS THAN OUR

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of a description of the recent adranca NOT ONE-SIXTH OF OUR NATIONAL north of Potieres, writes under date

WEALTIL 6 write under date August 8th

The line on which they had to advance was on the extreme left, from a point above Ovillersla Boisselle, alnost directly towards Mouquet Farm, which, with its shattered trees around it, is a conspicuous abject from all that part of the front standing as it does on ground only some 20ft. lower than the highest. point of all, lightly to the east along the Albert Bapaine rol.. Their immediato objer tive was a strongly fortified line of trench running diagonally across the patrol which had got several hun ground about half-way between them and the farme Besides this main trench there were a number of support trenches and so forth in various directions, and the approach was covered by machine gun fro from positions on both the right And left.

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It has been possible to day-to get from those who were engaged in it more details of part of the successful advance beyond Pozières of which I told yesterday (August 16th). It will be remembered that the push straight up from Pozières The real fighting was all over in half

In the House of Commons last month, was made by Australians and by English on hour. Some parties of the enemy the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated troops co-oporating on their left. Part put up a sturdy resistance to the KentienOur total indebtedness at the end of TJIBODAS of these troops, who seem to have done and Sussex xen, but the supply of March 1st we estimate will be 3,440 their portion of the work with great dash, Bombs was plentiful, and gradually they millions sterling. Out of that we may were from Kent,

were laid low, gave themselves up, or fairly deduct the amount of our advanco⚫ TJIKINI... vanished into their dug-outs. The leader to our Allies and Dominions, which I of one of the bombing parties was twice would put at the same date at 800 mil blown of the fire step by German gren- lions sterling. That would leave our net ades, but he picked himself up, took pos indctedness, at the end of March, 2,640 session of an enemy bomb store, and, at millions (Mr. Bryce-At £5,000,000- the head of his men, used these weapons a day?)Yes. That is out of all propor with such effect that he cleared the on to anything ever known before. trench up to the point where be rude But is it a burden which we are unable junction with an other party of his regi to ment Our national incomo may ment,

probably be put at about 2,500 millions, or perhaps 2,600 millions sterling. (Bir dred yards beyond the the main advance. Henry. During the war ) Yes. High as assailed by a heavy double flank prices raise value and thus compensate fire. A gallant fellow volunteered to for diminished production. Our national return and report upon the position, income was estimated by one authority and ask for instructions. His figure, at. 2,600 millions in 1918-14 and at 2,700 silhouetted against fares and Verey millions at the present time. Another doubled back but never hit. Charged We think that an exaggerated igure, lights, was continuously miped at as he authority put it as high as 3,000 millions. with a message to direct the patrol to and believe we are fairly within the withdraw, he returned under the same mark when we put the national income c.us fire. When the patrol moved off, at 2,600 millions sterling. That is to prepared to fight its way through the say our total indebtedness at the end of Germans who were working round in March next will just about equal one raliant lance-corporal brought up a is not a burden intolerable to contem rear of it in considerable numbers, this year's national income, which, of course NETH. Lewis gun and posted himself in a fav plate, d He is credited with having killed 30 of vurable spot for covering the retreat. this enemy, and enabled the patrol to retire in safety before he made good his

Just before the time set for the attack the enemy shelled our line heavily with his favourite gas shells, which, as usual, gave our men the inconvenience on a hot even of putting their gas masks on. The wear pous used in the attack were less rifles or Bayonets than bombs, through the epeing's barrage under cover

Our 80 of our

own" artillery bombardment. While some jumped into the German trench and bombed along it, others ran along the top, getting what coverty could from the parapet or other inequali |ties in the ground to protect them from the machine guns, and bombed down on the Germans below then.

There seenis to have followed a short space of very exhilarating fighting.

The Germans, who habitually have large quantities of their bombs so laid out ready that they can be used imme diately with a minimum of movement, fought in places stubbornly, but when the men of Kent, came romping along the top of the trench, attacking them from above, was too much for most of them, who bolted for their dug-outs,

When there, many of them tried to play a trick with which wo are getting familiar.

These dug-outs have connecting pass ages and many exits. When a British soldier calls to the inmates to come out, they shout back that they cannot because they are tending wounded. Earlier in this lighting, in such a case, our men might trustfully go down into the hole, and men coming in single file down steep steps with the light behind them are at a disadvantage against a dozen or sore of well-armed men waiting in readi ness for them in the dark. If our men resist this bait, there is a fair chance that rely mean more many podle there during the parleying which ensues the

dentas may escape by another exit. is the entury's own fault, the fault of his trickery, if now, after the second or third unions, instead of going down, four tuen send in a bomb ahead of then

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Just before the advance reached the my parapet, a soldier was wounded in the knew-cap, and fell into a shell-hole, where he rested-with-his feet in the air. When the stretcher bearers came to him some tuns afterwards he was singing Mid Shot and shell" at the top of

voice

An officer complained of what he torm ed a bit of dirty work: Two Germans appeared out of the darkness, and be bailed them. One held up his bauds and cried Kamerad," the other drop- and tried to pot the offer. It didn't ped on his knee behind his companion really pay them, however, he added, with a significant tap of his revolver helster

Triend say what he means by national Sir C. Henry-Will my right hon. income? It is rather a vague term.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer.-It is a very well-understood term. It means the aggregate of the incomo of every person in the country.

Sir C. Honry. Do you take into ac count payments for personal services?

The sums paid for personal services to The Chancellor of the Exchequer. servants are counted twice over. That is not a large proportion of the whole. My suggestion is that our total national indebtedness at the end of March next would be rather loss than our total estimated national income in other come is £5,000 a year and whose total words, the position of a man whose in- debts amount to £5,000 position which would not be considered extremely alarm ing.

Compared with the best estimate wo can obtain of our total national wealth capital wealth the proportion of in- debtedness is not really very largo.→ It

The prisoners mainly belong to the 11th Battalion of Prussian Infantry, and expressed themselves well satisfied to bo finished with the war. Many of them were quite young, a circumstance to which one of them at any rate owes his life. "I was just going to bayonet him in the heat of the 6ghting, said one of our men, when I saw his face in the flash of a bomb just noor. He was a young that I couldn't do it, but gripped revenue in one year equal to 20 per him by the belt, and sting him to the cent of the whole debt in one year, and rear. We found his belt was hung all we shall be able to pay off existing taxa- around with bombs when we got him in on the interest on the debt and a con- s derable sinking fund, and will still

estimated that our capital wealth is 15,000 millione, i say that our nation indebtedness will be less than one year's national income, and not one-sixth of the tal national wealth. We shall collect

Our men, having got possession of the trench which they had come to take and

A SUBTERRANEAN VILLA'S

Lahave hit a large margin for the reduc- rounded up getting on for a hundred prisoners, went on and made a thorough of the dug-outs which we captured, and next March.

Some remarkable details were given metion of taxation. That is on the 31st of job of it. They cleared out minor which are now used by our troops. One trenches and silenced machine-guns in of them, which had been occupied by the charge of optimism, and therefore I I do not wish to lay myself open to strong points.

It has been explained that this reconsists of six rooms, a cook-house, and will end, and I only give figures show. officers, is quite a subterranean villa. It express, no opinion as to when the war ment only had the extreme left of the signalling room, in two stories, the uppering our financial position at the end advance, and the official communiqué has already told you that there were also 15ft, under the surface, and the of the financial year. We have every reason Surrey and Sussex troops engaged. If lower ono about 30ft, beyond the reach to the proud of the manner in which the share of the men of one regiment is of the very heaviest shells. The walls British credit has stood the train, for the moment given prominence, it is are beautifully tapestried, the floors (Cheers.) We are raising a gigantic re- only because they are as yet the most handsomely carpeted, water laid on, venue; we are borrowing gigantic sums, electric lights fitted, the whole interiora d, of course, we have dificulties and comfortably furnished, and the built-in stress and strain, both internally and In une case articles of female apparel machinery for dealing with these huge cupboards full of good liquid and cigars. externally, in the mere working of the were found by our soldiers. gums. But we have succeeded in obtain Another dug-out, which is furnished ing the money at reasonable rates for two with nine doors, is provided with regular years, and I have not the least double camp beds for 12 soldiers. It is divided that the British public will show the One can have personal experience of into several departments, and contains same readiness in the future to support most of the difficulties of campaigning a kitchen, with three big boilers, cap the country both by paying taxes and in Macedonia by vising the Serbian sector This place is 30ft, deep, and is connected doubt that we shall be able to maintain able of cooking for a whole company. loading money. I have not the least of the Allies now farstretching front in the Balkans. You can realize what the with the sentry's look-out post in the our credit to the end of the war, no problems of transport and movement are trench by an electric alarm bell.

matter how long it may last." (Chcers.) in this country when you have climbed the

the discoveries as abrupt slopes at the top of which the mortuary dug - out, containing the Serbing infantry battalions dispute the bodies of about 80 dead Germans. peaks with the Bulgarians, and when you The enemy was evidently so have scrambled and stumbled up a track at this place having fallen into covered with Joose stones and broken-by four hands that he had bred at it with outerops of rock till you reach some bathis heavy artillery until he succeeded in tery of mountain-guns which somehow or setting it on fire. The Germans take ather was hauled up that same 2,000 feet great risks to recover and remove the

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Roughly defined, the Allied line (August 6th) now stretches from Lake Prospa to the Struma, though, of course, we do not occupy a continuous treach mouth of it. line between these points. This boundary

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for Scotland, stated that the Duke of Sutherland had offered to: the State the gift of an estate of 12,000 acres for the settlement of soldiers and sailors, and that the offer had been fccepted

Going into detail. Mr. Tennant ex- plained that the Duke of Sutherland was giving an absolute conveyance, a Mar- Linmás, only reserving for himself and his successors, the fishing of the lochs and miles north of Vodeas. During the fact bullets if so much as the top of your capi rivers on the estate, The farm lands were fortnight they have had several brushes shows for an instant above the parapet. to be used for the settlement of soldiers with the enemy, the first fights the Bor. Here you ride at a gentle trot to the foot and sailors who had been on foreign ser- bian Army has had since it was created of the mountain-chain in view certainly vice, had enlisted voluntarily, and had over again after its disruption during of the field-glasses of the enemy outposts good records. Not less than one half of the retreat through Albania. The opera- above, but out of range of anything they the lands were to be reserved før sailora, Lions have consisted in driving the Bul- can bring to bear on you. You climb the Preference would be given to men in good garians out of the positions which they mountain, and scramble, still upright, physical condition, though partially quietly occupied on the Karadjova Moun- however, to an observation post among disabled men would not be excluded. fains within Greek territory. This work the rocks, bestows yourself as comfortably Five or six thousand seres would be has not ended yet, but so far it has gone as the jagged points of granite allow, palt aforested by the State, and employment well, and the Serbian infantry has shown out your telescope,, prop it up as best would thus be available for the small that it has not lost the old fighting you cau, and there you are ready to watch holders. The sheep, caille, and horses quality. Already in this mountain the bombardment at your ease.

si y he mutually settled. A light railway was number of prisoners, all of whom stated to see how the Serbian Army would face to be constructed from the farm lands. that the rations the Bulgarian troops are to life at the front again after its six Amid general cheere Mr. Tennant ex- now, gelding are practically uneatable, months reat for reformation, to the pressed to the Duke the thanks of the even bread, a thing about which the averbivovar and the field raion, to the zip House for his handsome gift age Balkan peasant is not over dainty, of the bullet and the whistle of the shell. Duke of Sutherland has given to the The estate of 12.000 heres which the boing too black and too sour to digest. If any doubted whether their moral was

This is an old-fashioned, gentlemanly as in the old days, when unaided they State for the settlement of soldiers end kind of war. None of your tramping thrust the Austrians out of their country sailors is situated to the west of the River -Organ llecital at St. John's through interminable saps to get near the these upland nights must have reassured Naver in the County of Butherland, 20 kiral.

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deafening nerve shaltering, never-ending than to any other Allied Army, their Borgie to the coast at Port Skerry. The ouglas Steamship Co., Lud. Mont., die of artillery, no phut of snipers spirit is still leen, hopeful, and deter estate contains & considerable proportion

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