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Show WAR AIMS OF ENTENTE ALLIES British Indicates Only Conditions Condi-tions Under Which War Will Be Concluded. GREAT DEMONSTRATION Third Anniversary of Declara-J tion of War Celebrated in Queens Hall. LONDON, Aug. 4. David Lloyd-George, Lloyd-George, the British premier, in the presence of a distinguished gathering, representative of all parties which met this afternoon in Queens Hall to mark the third anniversary of the declaration dec-laration of war. "reiterated the aims : for which the entente allies were j fighting and Indicated the only con-! dltions under which they would con- j sent to a suspension of hostilities with the Central powers. ! The meeting was held under the auspices of the National War Aims committee, and was probably the greatest patriotic demonstration of the year. The expectation had been that the premier's speech, would De a most important one. The Marquis of Crewe, leader of the Liberal party in the house of lords, was chosen to preside. He was sup-ported sup-ported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Canter-bury, twenty members of the government govern-ment and 100 members of parliament. ! Baron Sonnino. the Italian foreign minister, and Nikola Pachitch, the ' Serbian premier, were invited guests. I As foreign minister Sonnino of Italy, Entente allies reached the platform the gathering rose and cheered again I and again, while the playing of the national anthems of the riiies aroused j tremendous enthusiasm. ' Premier Lloyd George's appearance 1 was the signal for a remarkable manifestation mani-festation of popular fervor. The premier on opening his address asked what would have happened If Great Britain had not entered the war. He answered this question by saying: "Europe would have been at the mercy of a cruel military power. Russia Rus-sia would have disintegrated sooner. France would have fought bravely but might have been overwhelmed. America's Amer-ica's Monroe doctrine would have been treated as a scrap of paper. The fact today is that wo have checked the ambitions of Germany." In the course of his speech Premier Lloyd George said: Victory Must Be Complete "Victory must be so complete that our national liberty never again shall be challenged. "Russia learned that an array without with-out discipline is a rabbit. "There are some here who want to set up committees for the British army and direct the conduct of the war. We cannot allow a sectional organization to dictate the terms of peace. The iiuiivj.i uu nun; UIUUC Vt CI I HI1U till- nation as a whole must make peace." German Peace Talk The British prime minister said ho did not trust the Gorman peace talk. "Neither the kaiser nor the chancellor," chan-cellor," ho declared, "has yet said he would be satisfied with German soil. They talk glibly about peace, but stammer over the word restoration. Before we have a peace conference they must learn to use the word restoration. resto-ration. So far they have not learned even the first letter of the alphabet." alpha-bet." "War is a ghastly business but it Is not so bad as their peace. While they know their plot has miscarried this time the Prussian war lords have determined de-termined to succeed the next time. There must be no next time. This generation must eliminate war from the tragedies of human life." Continuing Mr. Lloyd George said: Discontent Will Bring Defeat "If wq sow seeds of discontent and disunion in the nation we shall reap defeat. A nation which falters before it reaches its purpose will never become be-come a groat people. "No one in Great Britain, France, Italy and, Russia or even in Germany ' and Austria, has any idea how near ! we are today to the summit of our hope." |