MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH. A 'BELATED INSTALMENT. THE SUBMARINE POSITION. London. June 30. In a speech after receiving the freedom of the city of Glasgow, Mi-. Lloyd George said that, after a oarefnl recognition of the possibilities the Government had come to the conclusion, on the best advice, that submarines could not starve Britain nor drive her armies out of the field abroad. The losses in Ma? end June, although heavy, were hundreds of thousands of tons beneath the Admiralty forecast. Arrangements had been made for frustrating and destroying them, arvi he had no hesitation in saying that if they all did their part the Eiibmarines would be as great a failure as the zeppelins. They might he driven to eat less wheat and more barley and oats. They were running the war on the stock of energy drawn from that food, MESOPOTAMIA AND GERMIAN COLONIES. Alluding to Mesopotamia, he said that what would happen to Mesopotamia must, te left to the Peace Congress. It would never be restored to the Blasting tyranny of the Turks. The same observation applied to Armenia. Regarding the fate of the German colonies, their peoples' desires and wishes must be the dominant factor. The untutored peoples of the world would probably want gentler hands than those of Germans to rula them. PRUSSIAN MILITARISM MOST PERISH. Was there any desire on the part of Germany to settle on those essential terms? The Austrian Premier had repudiated the principle that nations must control their own destinies, but unless this principle was effected, not only would there be no peace, hut if they had there would he no guarantee of its continuance. Peace framed on an equitable 'basis would not be broken by the nations. An alluding peace must he guaranteed by the destruction of Prussian military power.