NATION BEFORE SELF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 5

NATION BEFORE SELF

• I/A.BOUR LEADER'S STRAIGHT? TALK. By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright. ; (Reo. July 12, 8.30 p.m.) London, July n. Mr. J. H. Thomas (Labour member • and railwaymen's organiser), addressing , tb© railwayman at Wellingborough', said that Britain had not only reached . a 1 critical period in the war zone, but was approaching a critical period in homo affairs. There had been a miserable quarrel between two eminent statesmen. Both had done good work for the State, but neither was so important as the . winning of the war. He declared that tli© people should make short work of anyone, however' important, who con- , sideredhis own personal ambition before .V." the nation's intorest. ' Workers, no Not Fail. - Mr. Thomas added, that it was'senseless to talk to the workers about unity ,unless those, in..authority set the ex-, ample. He urged the workers to continue to give of their best, so that it would never bo. said that, tho" working 1 classes had failed in their duties and responsibilities. If the men who were paid to run_ the nation failed in their duty, the time was not distant when the workers would rise in revolt.- , HALDANE-LLOYD GEORGE CONTROVERSY.. (Reo. July .13,, 0.55 ,a.m.)' -•'London,'July 12. Viscount Middletonj'in''a letter to , "The Times," appeals to- Parliamentarians to refrain from further probing tho Haldane-Lloyd George controversy. "It cannot be to tho interest of Britain'to present aiuappearance' of. disunion," he . . says; "Our business just' now is with 1 the present and the future, not tho past." The "Daily Mail" favours formation of a' People's ' consist- ; , ing of business meii'with big reputations to collect evidence and report on the question: "What State servants, by whose negligence and incompetency the fate of tho Empire has been endangered, are still holding office under tho Government?" The "Daily Chronicle" puts a sinister complexion "on the matter, and says: "In somo quarters it is rumoured that if Coloucl Von Donop does not resign Mr. Lloyd Georgo will, and if Colonel Von" Donop resignsj'Lord Kitchener will go too."- • . . '