POSTAGE ABROAD 1D. The increase in expenditure since the House
adjourned was due to the increase of our advances to our allies, and the mueli larger output of munitions. Mr. Asquith stated, however, that the cost of the Navy had shown 'a slight decrease, and it was not expected that in the next six months it would exceed that of the first half of the financial year. On the assumption that in the future the gross expenditure on the war would be £35,000,000 a week, or £5,000,000 per day, this Vote of Credit for £250,000,000 would suffice till about the third week in November. Mr. Asquith also gave the statistics for the munitions output. Twenty national shell factories had been established, and eighteen were in course of construction. There were also workshops in eighteen co-operative areas making lighter kinds of shell, seven hundred and fifteen controlled establishments, and eight hundred thousand workmen employed.
