“ROSY PICTURES.”
speaker Advises public not TO BE 'TOO SANGUINE. Mr Lowtlier (the Speaker of the House of Commons), in the course of an address at Penrith Empire Day celebration, said the colonies and dependencies were joining with the Mother Country in fighting the battle of honor, liberty, and right. They were lighting for honor against duplicity, for public faith against fraud, and for tho personal enjoyment of life against the thraldom of military tyranny. They must not deceive themselves as to the huge nature of the task before j them. He was afraid they had been j led away % rather rosy pictures given j them from time to time by the Press lof victories which our armies had ' achieved. They heard of Hie capture of trenches, hut seldom of tlfcir loss, and sometimes heard of. the recapture of trenches which they did not know had been vacated.
He thought a mistake had been made in not keeping the people of this country sufficiently informed of the actual state of affairs at the front. They had been led to believe i# was all plain sailing.
They were in for a stern fight, which •would try the mind and muscles of them all. They required courage and endurance, and, above all, confidence in the leaders, whether naval', military, or political.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3985, 19 July 1915, Page 7
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