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Show CULLS GERMANY THE ROAD HOGOF EUROPE David Lloyd-George Makes Speech to Arouse Enthusiasm Enthu-siasm of the Welsh. LONDON, Sept. 19, 4 p. m. "There is not a man in this hall who throughout through-out his political life has regarded the prospect of engaging in war with greater repugnance than myself. There is not a man, either inside or outside this hall, who ,is more convinced than I that we could not have avoided the present war without national dishonor." This was the text of a speech which David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, made in Queens hall this afternoon aft-ernoon to arouse Welsh enrhusiasm for Field Marshal Kitchener's new army. The chancellor went on to say that any' nation which disregarded its national honor was doomed and Great Britain was bound by honorable obligations to defend the independence, liberty and integrity of Belgium. Referring, to the accusation that Great Britain had used the treaty providing pro-viding for Belgian neutrality as a cunning cun-ning cloak to veil her jealousy of a superior civilization, the chancellor said: ''Our answeriwas the action we took in 1S70. In that case Prince Bismarck respected Prussia's treaty obligations, but it was to the interest of. Prussia to break her treaty today and she -has done it. To Prussia a treaty is just a scrap of paper. "This doctrine of a scrap of paper goes to the root of all public law. Ve are fighting against barbarism and there is only one way of putting it right. If there are nations who say they will respect treaties only when it is to their interests to do so. we must make it to their interest to do so in the future. ' Referring to the German excuses, Mr. Lloyd-George, remarked: liA great nation ought to be asharried of behaving like a fraudulent bankrupt trying to escape his obligations. " Referring to the case of Servia, the chancellor of the exchequer said that Emperor Nicholas had given Austria the only answer that became a man when he said: " 'I will tear your ramshackle ram-shackle empire limb from limb,' and he is doing it! " Prussia, said Mr. Lloyd-George, is "the road hog of Europe. Men, worn- |