In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Asquith moved
the eleventh Vote of Credit for the war. He asked for £300,000,000, which will last till the beginning of August at the estimated rate of expenditure of £4,750,000 a day. He put the daily rate of expenditure for the past fifty days higher—at £4,820,000. The principal items in the bill are Army, Navy, and munitions, £149,000,000 ; loans to Allies and Dominions, £74,500,000 ; food supplies, transport, &c., £17,500,000. The growth of expenditure is noticeable in the loans to Allies and others. • Colonel Churchill reviewed our resources in men. He pointed out five main reser- voirs. First, there was the margin of men at the front (officers' servants, for example) who never came under fire. if we had five million men under arms, the forces of the enemy with which we came actually into contact probably amounted to only five hundred thousand men. The second reservoir is the Army at home, which he thought was too large ; the third, the Eastern Armies ; the fourth, Africa ; and the fifth, Asia. Every man in uniform should be submitted to as severe a scrutiny as a civilian suffered. His advice to the War Office was " Physician, comb thyself 1"
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