Gentlemen of the House of Commons: I thank you for the liberality with which you have met a great emergency.
My Lords and Gentlemen: We are fighting for a worthy purpose, and we shall not lay down our arms until that purpose has been fully achieved.
I rely with confidence upon the loyal and united efforts of all my subjects, and I pray that Almighty God may give us His blessing.
Then a commission for proroguing the Parliament was read, after which the Lord Chancellor said:
My Lords and Gentlemen: By virtue of his Majesty's commission, under the great seal, to us and other lords directed, and now read, we do, in his Majesty's name and in obedience to his commands, prorogue this Parliament to Tuesday the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.