BURDENS OF CIVILISATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3315, 20 October 1919, Page 5

BU RDENS OF CIVILISATION.

BRITAIN‘APPRO~ACHING LIMIT OF STRENGTH. UNWISE TO GO FURTHER. lIONDON, Oct. 17. In the course of his speech at Sheffield, Mr. Lloyd oGrge said delay in signing Peace with Turkey was attributable to the fact that it was unknown whether America was going to share the burdens of civilisation outside the United States. He was rather pleased that Americans had’ ‘been brought face to face with this, because some Americans used to accuse the “grabbing British Enmpire’? of getting 9, piece of land at -every available opportunity. He» thought Americans now realised that Britain had been undertaking a great civilised duty at great cost to herself. It was a task Providence had sent us and which we were discharging ‘in various parts of the world, He begged the men of our kith and kin in America. to join in that task, otherwise he did not know what was going to happen to parts of the Turkish Empire. Neither We nor France could undertake it all. People who have been living in the shadow of a great tyranny for centuries were appealing to America to -come and help protect them. He hoped the appeal would not be in vain. We were undertaking similar responsibility ourselves, and found that "w‘§*Were approaching the limit of our strength, and that it would be unwise to go further. It would be the height of unwisdom for us to disarm until the Turkish problem was settled. It was vital to the British~Empire, and to the world, that it should be setled p'r’6perly and prompt--ly_ By December 31st, 98 per cent. of conscripted soldiers would have been returned to their homes, and by the time the Conscription Act expired, there would not be a. single conscript who had not returned homeward. BRIT‘AIN’S OFFER TO ‘AMERICA. LONDON, Oct. 18. Mr Morgenthau, a former United States Ambassador to Turkey, is returning from Europe. In an onofiicial statement he expressed the opinion that Britain would grant the Unitcd State equal rights to the Straits of ‘Gibraltar if the United States would accept a man(]a_lc for Armenia, Anatolia and Constantinople. Mr Morgen‘thau said he would advocate the ac3ccptancc of such :1. mandate. He estimated it would cost the United States ‘three hundred million dollars to build up Constantinople to be a prosperous‘ centre in the Near East.