LLOYD GEORGE’S SPEECH.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 13 July 1917, Page 2

LLOYD GEORGE’S SPEECH.

PESSIMISM IN GERMANY. INTERNAL DISTURBANCE. LONDON, July 3. The Times corespondent, at Amsterdam states that profound pessimism can be observed beneath the abusive language in the German comments on Mr. Lloyd George’s speech in Glasgow. This is not surprising considering Germany ’s present disturbed condition, when even the German newspapers publish reports of rioting in Stettin and Dusscldorf.

Three months ago the Yolkszeitung declared “It will only be a few weeks, at the longest a few months, before the bloody final battle will be fought and peace is declared. The Kaiser himself has promised that peace is approaching.” The paper to-day says that peace is impossible on Mr. Lloyd George’s terms, because it would mean that the Central Powers would be defeated, with the loss of their colonies and the democratisation of the country. Inspired Berlin comments proclaim that the predatory aims of the British have been unveiled. These comments are evidently intended to steel the people for a fourth war winter, than which nothing conceivable to the German mind could be more intolerable. Austrian comments are different in tone, describing the speech of an artful attempt to sound Austria-Germany with the prospect of a return of colonies if Germany would forego Asia Minor ,