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Show EPOCIIIEOlr PREMIER'S SPEECH Lloyd George Praised for Manner in Which He Out-lined Out-lined War Aims. LONDON, Jan. 6. Premier Lloyd George's speech to the delegates of the trades unions on Saturday is characterized character-ized by the weekly newspapers as marking a historical epoch in the war. The Weekly Dispatch asserts that it is a ' ( courageous call for unity in the nation in the face of the trials and dangersthat lie ahead, and is the best answer to the clamorous, if unimport-tant, unimport-tant, minority, who have been endeavoring endeavor-ing to drive a wedge between the government gov-ernment and the Labor party on the false plea that there are unbridgeable integral . difficulties in . the respective conceptions of the war aims for which we arc fighting." The News of the World declares the speech outlined the British war aims "with a degree of precision which leaves no loophole for misunderstanding." misunderstand-ing." and adds: "These are the aims for which we entered the war. For them we have bled unflinchingly for more than three years, nud for them, as the premier pre-mier well said, we are prepared to face even heavier sacrifices than any we yet have endured." The Sunday Times says the most sat-isfactorv sat-isfactorv phrases of the speech and the most discomforting for the Prussian war lords are those which reveal it as "not an utterance of either mere statesmen or a political party, but as the considered utterance of tho British peofde. ' ' The National News says: "If there was ever any doubt about the things for which the manhood of oar empire has been crloriously making a great sacrifice, suc h can no longer exist." It adds that the importance of the sneech was greatly increased, as it was delivered to the representatives of labor. Tho newspaper concludes: "That the premier should have selected se-lected this democratic channel tor his historic pronouncement is surely significant sig-nificant of his bulief that the organized organ-ized movement of demo'-racy is the power which shall rule the world in the coming szolden time." The People asserts Mr. Lloyd George has done inestimable service to the nation na-tion and t lie entente allies in stating frankly and without reservation Great Britain's war aims, and adds: "It will no longer be possible for our present enemies to profess honest doubt as to what we are fighting for, or to delude any intelligent Oerman with the f;iblo that our aim is the de- . (Continued on Page Two,) EPOCH MARKED BY PREMIER'S SPEECH (Continued from Page One.) struction or the disruption of the German Ger-man state or its people. " LONDON, Jan. 6.- Premier Lloyd George's speech meets with more general approval than most of his former utterances. utter-ances. James Ramsav MacDonaid. Socialist and Labor member of parliament, addressing ad-dressing a meeting of Laborites at Glasgow Glas-gow today, contrasted the tone of the , premier's "Saturday speech with his former for-mer speeches, and said that the premier's pre-mier's latest speech was far more reasonable rea-sonable and calm: it was the speech of a man who felt hia tremendous responsibility respon-sibility and who saw clearly above and behind the battle field ail th problems which would have to be settled afterward. after-ward. How much better it would have been, said Mr. McDonald, if no oilier than that kind of a speech had beer, delivered since August, Utl4. The leader of the British Socialists, Henry M. Hyndman, in the course of an interview, described the premier's speech as a general statement of Great Britain's Brit-ain's Intentions, as "satisfactory and what an overwhelming majority of Englishmen En-glishmen would support." Mr. Hyndman point ed out the contradiction contra-diction between President Wilson's statement state-ment of no peace with the ''Hohenzol-lerns" ''Hohenzol-lerns" and Mr. Lloyd George's repudiations- of a desire to change the present government of Germany, and complained of lack of definltenpss in the details con- . cerning especially the settlement of ter- I ritorial questions In eastern Europe. Hl declared that to leave Turkey in contrijr of the most Important portion of the empire em-pire was only justifiable by an Immediate Imme-diate separate peace with Turkey, giving the allies the right to send warships into the Black sea. PARIS. Jan. 6. The newspapers attribute at-tribute much importance to the speech of David Lloyd George. La Liberte likens it to a strong breeze that is "going to dissipate all the clouds that Germany and its agents and accomplices have thrown around the war aims of the allies." Clie -Intransigeant calls it a "diplomatic act of great importance." The Temps, after noting that it was to the German people Mr. Lloyd George spoke when he recalled that tho prolongation pro-longation of the war intensifies the scarcity scar-city of raw materials more and more and tfhat. producers will be obligor to reserve them first for their own needs and then for the needs of friendly nations, adds: "When listening to the solemn words that have just been sounded in London, the diplomats and publicists over the Rhine perhaps are going to sneer. But there is a tragic reality they cannot indefinitely in-definitely conceal from their fellow citizens citi-zens that is If Germany remains as she appears to the world today, perpetually thirsting for domination and perpetually convicted of bad faith, she will remain isolated after the war as she has been : blockaded during the war. May the Ger-! Ger-! mans reflect on that perspective." |