MYSTERY ABOUT VERSAILLES CLEARED UP

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 133, 22 February 1918, Page 5

MYSTERY ABOUT VERSAILLES CLEARED UP

HOW NEW ALLIED PLAN WAS EVOLVED

THE GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA

STATEMENT BY DR. VON ■ KUHLMANN

The delayed report of Mr. Lloyd George's speech in the House of Commons on the subject of the Supreme War Council at Versailles and the circumstances connected with the resignation of Sir 'William Robertson x appears below. As wa3 indicated by the tenor of Mr. Asquith's remarks (published yesterday), the Prime Minister satisfied <he House that the best thing that could have been done in tho interests of the Allies' war policy had been done. He expressed regret that Sir William Robertson should' have been unable to see his way to continue. Mr. Lloyd George was well received by the House, and.his remarks were punctuated with cheers. The, only events of importance on the Western front are the British military and naval air raids—very damaging raids as they' proved to be. In Russia the situation has not materially altered. The Germans are advancing on wido sectors from Dvinsk to Kovno, and have already taken several hundred prisoners and gun 6. Dr. von. Ruhlmann has addressed to the Reichstag Committee a statement of the circumstances connected with the renewal of the war with Germany, >