MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE. THE RUSSIAN PROBLEMS. London, Feb. 12. In the House of Commons Mr. Clynes strongly criticised the Government programme Referring tc Ireland, he said the Government must either yield to the act Simula ion of disorder which its vast policy has created or asseroblo sufficient military force. The Premier had promised Labor would have a place at the conference. but the pledge had not been honored Mr. Clynes criticised the Government handling of the industrial situation. The granting of State doles weekly for doing nothing v,as not a solution. He demanded information regarding Russia and the abolition of conscription. Mr Clynes said the country was entitled to know the Government's military intentions. The. Premier had failed* to tell the workers what material benefits were forthci>]„'ing. i Mr. Clyin.fi said that organised labor might hp.\o made a mistake in pressing for tou much at a single stage, but there wew eweptiona to this rule. They shculd look at the fortunes made in the past 2.: yciirs out of coal, food and beer. (Cheers', Mr. Clynes opposed the doctrine ot force, but remedial action should be immediate. Replying to Colonel Guinness' amendment, urging fuller information regarding the Peace Conference, Mr. Lloyd George said the Government had been trying to speed up the agreements. He was confident that an agreement would be readied regarding Germany's western boundary, but the eastern boundary was a different matter. The conference had unanimously decided that the colonies should not be restored to Germany. The Government had adhered to its pledge to insist on this. No proposal had been made at the Peace Conference to recognise the Bolsheviks. Russia presented a difficult problem. While the immense country was seething with anarchy, disorder and bloodshed the world could not have peace. The Government was considering alternative methods, which included honest, straightforward intervention. The Allies had already provided these Huns with munitions. America was sending neyther men, money nor material. If men went England and France would have to provide them. The Government had sought to confer with the Bolsheviks in the hope of finding a way out of the chaos. —A.US.-N.Z. Cable Assn.