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Show EUD CHARGED iTHjjELflSlESS Statement of Lloyd George Arouses Resentment Among French PEOPLE NOT INFORMED Phlegmatic Englishmen Be come Indignant at Lack of Proper Information By PHILLIP EVEBETT Specia Cab e o The Tribune I ONDON. Apr 1 10 The revelat ons made by Lloyd Cieorge concern ng cer ta n n dents wh ch happened n the meet ngs of the I ngl sh cab net n meu ately before the war and an n terv ew publ shed n the March num ber of a London magaz ne have I am ofo med by persona lr ends in Pans aroused a certa n b tterness among he irench people a b tterness wh ch has fortunately been depr ed of i s st ng by later events and pr nc pally or course by the splendid feats of arras of the Br t sh army and navy At the same time no one n Franco understands why the Br t sh chancellor of the exchequer should Ijave fo nd t F roper at the p esent moment to n orm the whole world that the liberal government b t for the violat on of Belg an neutral ty would not have sent a s ngle sold er to France to help Eng land s best fr end in defend n her ter ntory aga nst an ent rely unprovoked attack wh ch Germany herself has now made perfectly clea was mereh to be cons dered as a necessary prelude to an attack upon England when Euss a and franco shoujd have been el m nated and the German navy strong enough to tackle that of England Will France Reply' Frenchmen, I hear are asking them selves f it be the intention of Lloyd George to gi e France an opportun ty some day to reply to England It was not tor the Bake of France that you sacr ficed our army t was not for the French nat on your true and loyal f r en 1 for years but merely for Bel g un s sake that you entered the war your only object was merely to pre ent Germany from se z ng Belgian ports, the occupat on of wh ch you looked upon as a danger to tbe Engl sh sles Here in Lngland we have our doubts as to whether Lloyd George s state ments are n str ct accordance with truth W are far from ncl ned to bo lieve that there was a perfect under stand ng between the French and Eng hsh governments so much more as th s appears to be the only poss ble ex planat on of the fact that the Br tish fleet was already concentrated n the North 6ea, as well as in the channel wh le the French fleet was prepared for any task that might arise in the Med terranean Alexandra Is Active V th the returning spr ng weather Queen Alexandra, seems to have re covered her health and vouthfulness and tbe amount of worl bhe manages to accompl sh s aston shing She s as mpuls ve as e er and one of her fa vor te past mes s unannounced v s ts to the London hosp tals where wounded and s cl sold ers are eared for The re suit of th s s that every hosp tal is always ready for a royal nspection and those of Queen Alexandra are very thorough ones The pat ents get the benefit of the eont nuous alertness of the ent re staff Engl shn en are notoriously slow to anger but t cannot be concealed that there s a r s ng t de of nd gnat on aga nst S r Stanley Buckmaster and his staff of ass stants at the press bureau s nee it became known that the bureau has w lfully kept the Engl sh n gnorance of one of the most glor ous feats of arms e er performed by Br t sh sold ers for more than five months More Information Wanted I refer to the battle of Ipres fought on October 31 last year m which the Engl sli exped t onary force annihilated the Pruss an Guards and where the total of Engl sh casualt es amounted to 60 000 out of 1"0 000 men engaged When t s cons de ed that the An er can correspondent who first des bed the battle estimated tbe F anco Belgian losses at 0 000 men and the Cerman at no less than 375 000 t s eas ly unUe stood that even a phlegraat c Engl sh man hates to real ze that be has been treated like a ch Id or a fool who has no right to be informed of what the country s army s do ng but is s mply supposed to keep quiet anl pay the taxes that are demanded of him Accord ng to an art cle in a copy of the Voss sche Zeitung in t rece ved here the Germans are beginn ng to take a sp te against the r dogs because the an mals require to be fed Th a journal sa s Germanv has e ght enem es Eng 1 s"h 1 rench Belgians Euss ans, Japanese Se v ans Montenegrins and the p gs There is however a n nth enemy the dog wh ch ceases to be the best' f end of man when it begins to feed tself at h s expense Dogs are great eaters and eat al i ost lie us S nee the enemv a cut t n" off our food supplies we ought w tbout hesitat on to sacr fice all the dogs It would be a crln e to gi e then potatoes snd bread wh h are lack to feed Cerman c t zens |