“THERE MUST BE NO NEXT TIME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 7 August 1917, Page 3

“THERE MUST BE NO NEXT TIME.

LIBERTIES OF NATIONS MUST BE PRESERVED. LLOYD GEORGE ON THE KAISER’S STUTTER. London, August, 4. Air Lloyd George (Prime A 1 mister) was accorded a great ovation on rising to address the meeting which was held in the Queen's Hall for (lie purpose of expressing the nation’s inflexible determination to continue the struggle for liberty, justice and victory. The Marquis of Crewe presided, and there wns a crowded audience, which included Bn ron Sonnino (Italian Foreign Minister), the Servian Premier (M. Paslich), Cabinet Ministers, many members of Parliament, oversen soldiers, and Allied Presidents. Mr Lloyd George, a Per paying tribute to Italy’s war effort, said: —“Wo are lighting to defeat the most dangerous conspiracy ever plotted against the liberties of nations. We have striven for three years to that end, and not unsuccessfully. We have cheeked the ambition of Germany. The Kaiser knows that it is not true that the Germans are lighting to protect German soil. Even now. neither the Kaiser nor Dr. Alielmeiis say that (hey will be satisfied with German soil. They talk glibly of peace, but they stammered when they came to the word ‘restoration.’ Before we enter a pence conference they must lenrn to utter Unit word to begin with. Our gallant fellows are gradually going to (-lire (he Kaiser of his slut I or. Restoration is the first letter. Then we will talk.” The war, said the speaker, was a ghastly business, but there was nothing so grim as a bad peace, a peace that went on staggering from one year to a,not her. The Prussian War Lords had not yet abandoned Mmir ambitions. “There must bo no next lime,” lie said. “Let us have done with it. Don’t let us repeat the horror. Let us make the victory so that national liberty, whether of small or great nations, can never be challenged. The small nation must be as well protected as the big. Doubtless the Russian collapse is rather a deep glen we are passing through, and 1 am not sure that wo have reached the darkest level, but across the-valleys I can see Hie ascent. Russia is still on the rope, and will in due time come up again. We cannot, allow a sectional organisation to make peace. It is the whole nation that makes war, and it is the nation as a whole that must make peace. The Germans said that they wore satisfied with the result of the last halile. Sir Douglas Haig secured all his objectives. We have enough guns to smash lines on which the Germans for three years had expended willing and forced labour, if the Germans are pleased with that battle, so are we. Lot (his continue thus to our mutual satisfaction.” Air Lloyd George concluded by making a plea to the nation for unity. He asked the people to keep their eyes steadily on winning the war.