22 JUNE 1918, Page 2

On Tuesday in the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law

dealt briefly with the new Vote of Credit for £500,000,000, which will carry the Government on over the summer recess. During the current quarter the average daily expenditure had been £6,848,000, rather under the Budget estimate, in spite of an actual increase of £6,000,000 on the Army Vote, due to the growth in ration strength. In reviewing the military situation Mr. Bonar Law admitted the validity of the German successes at St. Quentin, on the Lys, and in the Chemin des Dames. But the enemy had not gained any of his great objectives—the separation of the French and British Armies, the Channel ports, or Paris. If we could say this three months hence, then the great German offensive would have failed.