LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1917, Page 7

LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.

PESSIMISM IN GERMANY. London, July 3. The Times correspondent at Amsterdam states that profound pessimism can ibe observed beneath the abusive language in the German comments on Mr. Tjoyd 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 Dusseldorf. Three 1 months ago the Volk'szeitung 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 same paper to-day says that peace is impossible on Mr. Lloyd fifeorge's terms, because it would mean that the Central Powers would be defeated, with the loss of their colonies and the denioeratisation of the country. Inspired (Berlin comments proclaim that the predatory aims of the British have been unveiled. These comments are evidently intended to ?*eel the .people for a fourth war wimti, than which nothing conceivable to the German mind could be more intolerable. Austrian comments are different in tono, describing the speech as an artful attempt to sound Austria-Germany, with the prospect of a return of colonies if Germany would forego Ask Minor.