§ Whereupon Mr. SPEARER, pursuant to the Order of the House of the 12th February, proposed the Question, " That this House do now adjourn."
§ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Bonar Law)I promised early in the afternoon that if there were any further news with regard to the attack which began yesterday, I would communicate it to the House. I have just received a telephone message from the War Office in regard to the news which has this moment reached them. it is therefore very vague, but I am sure that it will give to the House, as it did to me, great satisfaction. Up to the present the number of prisoners counted has reached 8,000. Of these 180 are officers. At one point we have penetrated five miles behind the German lines, and several more villages, in addition to those already announced, have been taken.
§ Adjourned accordingly at Two minutes after Eleven o'clock.