ME. LLOYD GEORGE ANSWERS QUESTIONS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 101, 22 January 1918, Page 5

ME. LLOYD GEORGE ANSWERS QUESTIONS

BOLSHEVIK PLOT I RUMANIA SEA FIGHT IN THE DARDANELLES BRESLAU SUNK; GOEBEN DAMAGED & BEACHED i Further details are given in to-day's dispatches of Mr. Lloyd George's conference with the trade unionists. The Prime Minister was directly interrogated oil the peaco issue, and as directly replied to his questioners, saying, in effect, that peaco negotiations must bo between Governments, as constitutional representatives of the people, not by tho interested efforts of sections of tlio people, and that if the German Government as at present constituted will not hear reason, the metier of tho Allies will be to so impress tho German people that they will set up a Government that will. The Russian Constituent Assembly, aiter an all-night sitting, was'dispersed by tho sailors at four o'clock in tho morning. M. Clemenceau has been accorded a vote of confidence in tho French Chamber of Deputies after one of,tho most heated debates in its history. The Turco-German battle-cruiser Gooben and tho cruiser Breslau, notorious for their escapo from the Mediterranean into Turkish waters in the early days of the war, havo been engaged by a British naval force in the Dardanelles, the Breslau being sunk, and the Goeben driven ashore in a damaged condition.