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Show PEACE DEFERRED BY GERMAN ATTITUDE: LONDON. Oct. 12. Premier Lloyd George, addressing a delegation of insurance in-surance committees who called today to urge a readjustment of health insurance in-surance and the establishment of a ministry of health, declared that all the nation's thoughts and energies were taken up by tho terrible demands made in defense of liberty and freedom. free-dom. He wished he could see the end, but tho task which the nation had taken tak-en in hand must be accomplished. He could not think of any statement more calculated to prolong the war than tho assertion of tho German foreign for-eign secretary. Von Kuehlmann, that Germany would never contemplate the making of concessions to France respecting re-specting Alsace-Lorraine. However, long the war lasted, said the premier. England intended to stand by her gallant ally, France, until she redeemed her oppressed children from the degradation of a foreign yoke. For the moment every claim upon the exchequer must be considered in the light of the terrible possibilities of the war, and when tho war was over, ov-er, in a freer, happier atmosphere the l. r i -taw ,u 1 1 i ii i 1 1 1 iBSBBSgBBaaaag country could begin to rebuild, reconstruct recon-struct and regenerate. |