26 DECEMBER 1914, Page 2

The Daily Chronicle of Tuesday, by arrangement with a Paris

paper, the Humaniie, publishes "an interview which M. Jean Longuet, the Socialist Deputy for Paris, has had with Mr. Lloyd G eor ge." Britain, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was spending £45,000,000 a month on the war—a sum as large as that being spent at present by France. " England, he explained, has over 2,000.000 soldiers and sailors under arms" —and very shortly we should reach the total of 2,500,000. Nearly a million and a half new men have been raised since August 2nd.