ESTABLISHED 1866. The Marlborough Express PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. LLOYD GEORGE'S GREAT SPEECH.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 224, 2 October 1916, Page 4

ESTABLISHED 1866. The Marlborough Express PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. LLOYD GEORGE'S GREAT SPEECH.

•'There will be no quitters aniongsb'the Allies. ' Never again' has become our battle-cry.''—Mi' ' Lloyd George-^ .' ■ ' Mr. Lk>y<i George has given several notable nv^ssages to the British people during the past few months, but there is something 'jxceptionally inspiring' m the simply eloquent deliverance cabled .on Saturday last. The whole speech, or nvsssago, is intended, no doubt, as much for Britain's enemies as for her Allies. and the neutral nations; It is a clear indication to .Europe, the United States, and the world that all talk of peace (until ,the enemy is completely defeated is ju.st; so much waste of rime, arid .^rejects., in advance any suggestions , for .peace negotiations which Germany;may or may not be able to -induce President '"Wilson ■or some other well-meaning, theorist in pacifism to put forward. < The speech rings with manifest sincerity and honesty. No-: 'German -statesman, .broughtvup in the ,school- of traditional/- Prussian- arrogance and egotism, Would have confessed, as Mr Lloyd Geo!.rge;;clearly does, that for; .some- months His' .country - was in a very ■; tight corner. British j soldi.ea',"i greaf British' states- j ;man'. admits., ''has had for two years, a baditiirie^;. ■»• >:/he possessed- sadly inferior^ equipment, aitd\ on the'j average? -.?was-- ; inferior' in training:.. > Btib. this ? very admission makes-' all; j .the' more and emphatic the j eulogy. which^foUows, • ift which the | Hrcfcish soldier is compared to' ''a gain-} dog!" : "He .hung on without whining," And fought' off every attack, j He bided [his time, endured .without, wincing,- worked' without flagging, j Well may] Mr Lloyd George declare that the British soldier is not to;be, robbed?of ith©'legitimate and, indeed,, so "far as this war is concerned, the imperatively necessary ;: fruits of victory"' by a peaco which, would be inconclusive. " ' Never * again '. has become- our battle-ory," says Mr Lloyd George; and it is a- sentiment which.' will be approved and endorsed iwhererer' waves the British flag. - The War Minister is under no illusiqai. about \yhaj> : still .remains to, be don£. He- makes'np foolish attempt at predicting the day when ultimate Victory will crown the Allies, arms, bufi he has-"not:the. slightest doubt how it will end." Tne British "game dog*' may have-to display his gameness for months yet, , and \ trie ' inhumanity and pitilessriefes'!' of''the struggle may .continue ' -for: ■■ iiiainy months ,w> come before -^a lasting peace* is possible. But who will dare to deny, that no matter ■"what 'grief -and' misery, the nation -may; yeti have to bear, it is ■infinitely preferable to the cruelty which would be entailed by astoppage of thc-iwar "while yet," to quote *Mtf- Lloyd. G^di-ge;"th<"re remains a possibility o!f civilisation.' being again menaced from the same quarter ' Not the Tea'st satis-factoiy feature, m this memorable utterance is the clear, if indirect; reiWemce to the punishment of "the . perpetrators-'1 of this outage against humanity." This is evidently a straight-out iriessage to ■the «riemy that those in^high. command whr> have planned, authorised, or officially countenanced:; those specially vile; deeds by which the once fail- rianio .of Germany has been eternally befouled, .will be made to answer personally'for their misdeeds. Jt "s specially fitting that Mr Lloyd George should havetinted: his message to- the ; press ' 'fco fit in with the assembling of; the.German Reichstag. That body appears,, to, have commenced -;ts ! sitti%s somewhat ihauspiciousty, > for while BethmannHolhyeg was making his labored and fntile explanation of the failure- of Sermany'f-t diplomacy at Bucharest ( the air of Berlin must have been I hick "with popular dismay over the very serious reverses met with by the German armies oix the Somme. As | the real, moaning t>f the British and j French. siit'cesses"begins to dawn upon ; i.he Gorman mind the statement of, I-lerrKaempt, the President of the j K-eichstag, that "the ' position of Germany was in every respect satis- . factory", will be recognised as beingl what it was, an mendacity.. : The full text, of. Mr Lloyd George's message may > not for some time come I to tho. knowledge of tho German j oeople, but it "is well known that very few days elapse before everything really important which is said hy a British statesman leaks into j Germany through Dutch and other j neutral soucres, and it'is safe to say] ■that members of tho' Reichstag at ] I lo.Tst will not long remain ignorant} of the fact that Great Britain has clearly declared, through the mouth |-of one of the aiolest of her Ministers, '■hat there is not the faintest ,cha.ncc,of her ever considering peace until victory is won. Needless to say, there is bound to be high satisfaction in Paris, at Petrograd. and at Home with the explicit declaration of Britain's determination that there there will be no flirclung on her part from the grntr tsudc undertaken by her in concert with her Allies. A similar, - spirit of determination and: defiance of whatever may be done or! attempted by the Central-PpAvers and j their contemptible tools, the Turks 3 and Bulgarians, animates, we have! n;> doubt j the Wrench] Russian, and! Italian ''Governments and peoples, j Once and for all Great Britain has (oid the world that peace there can be none until that utterly vile thing, Prussian military power, is crushed, and its authors and asorits rumbled i ir. tlie dust. . .aii- LT<:;/:V. Gere's*, speech was more i War. ■ ..'.rushing-

reproof of the silly people who still pose a& "pafiftsts' in Fifngland. It was a message and an appeal to the whole Empire, a ijnessage of wellfounded hope and confidence, an appeal for an unbroken, cqiiitinnance oi steady, substantial support—in men and munitions—to the British armies in the field. We; in ,i^ew Zealand may share .and rejoice.-;in tliat hope and confidence by ./which Mr Lloyd George was mspiyed. To the un-f-poken but implied appeal for steady and. regular assistance the- young men of the Dominion have it m their power to make the ; w and only patisifactory responKO.. . . ■