Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 23 December 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

I ■ - 'I —• I LLOYD GEORGE’S SPEECH. I v,.R JOHN’S SIMON’S TRIBUTE. Press Association-Copyright, Austlian and N.Z. Cable Association London, December ■ 21. In the House of Commons, Sir John Simon (ex-Hlome Secretary) expressed a desire to voice the acceptance by the whole of the United Kingdom of Mr Lloyd George’s speech. The German Note, be said, did not contain terms lead themselves to consideration.. They were not in ,any way peace posals. Mr Lloyd George had vihot slammed the door of peace, but the nation agreed that it would be an unpardonable crime to allow the war to continue one unnecessary hour, ana that it would be the deepest treachery, fighting or otherwise, to falter in securing the essentially defensive and imaggressive objects wherefor we entered the war. GERMAN PEACE TERMS. , TRUST THEM NOT. MR BONAR LAW IN REPLY. WHAT THE FIGHTING’S FOR. Press Association—Copyright. •■■■). Reuter’s Service. (Received £).5 a.ni.) London, December 22. In the' House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law said the Nation was suffering terrible agony because she had .trusted Germany. He asked, coma a promise of peace be more binding than a treaty to protect the neutrality of Belgium. What would be the position if peace was settled on the German basis of a. victorious army. The dangers and miseries from which the world was suffering were only curable by making the Germans realise that frightfulness does not pay. We wore fighting for a security of a peace in the coming times, and the war would be fought vainly unless wo made sure ( that no single, man or group of men would he able,-to, plunge the world into, the miseries of war. , . | fjaii j-rnibiL 7/ ■. Irfiid'. ' i WILSON CAN TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. Press Association. -Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, December 22. Mr Bonar Law’s short impromptu speech was fervid and passionate in its intensity, and is regarded as an indirect but unmistakable reply to President Wilson’s Note. Discordant peace move. - the boomerang effect. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.55 a.m.) gu '/ London,. December 22. ’ ’ ITuyDady) Telegraph’s... Rome corstates that information from German'"soilroes" indicates 1 that there was disagreement in enemy.couutries regarding the peace conditions; Austria and Bulgaria are the most intractable, while Turkey was prepared to make sacrifices. In consequence oi tlie discord, Germany merely asked for a conference.

The Note was intended to demoralise the Entente’s people, but its reception is demoralising the peoples of the Central Powers. THE KING’S SPEECH. PROSECUTE THE WAR. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Loudon, December 22. The King’s prorogation speech exhorts the Empire to prosecute the war with the single endeavour to vindicate those international rights violated by the enemy, and to re-establish European security.