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Show ALLIED DELEGATES MEET WITH KING' All Agree Complete Victory Over Germany and Militarism Militar-ism Must Be Won. LONDON Oct. 22. (British wireless wire-less service ) King George received a largo deputation of inter-parliamentary delegates at Buckingham palace yesterday. Tho deputation included thirty British representatives, twenty-two twenty-two from France, eight from Italy and one from Belgium. "More than two years have passed," said the king, "since the first visit of the inter-parliamentary committee of the French chambers, when you and we wore in the throes of a conflict, the issue of which then seemed to many foreign observers uncertain, although you and we never doubted that our. cause, being the cause of right and humanity, hu-manity, would prevail. Now the armies of France, Italy, Belgium and the United Unit-ed States, side by side with ours, are driving the enemy before them, his forces shattered, his people clamoring for peaco Victory Must be Complete. "Victory is vithin our reach, and we are all agreed that It must be a complete victory. I congratulate you, senators and deputies of Italy, on the pnospect which opens before you of recovering the regions guarded by those Alpine snows where your valiant val-iant soldlors have won such glory regions re-gions inhabited by men of your own race and speech who have long desired to be united to free Italy. "And I congratulate you, senators and deputies of France, on the approaching ap-proaching restoration of provinces torn from you forty-seven years ago, which have never wavered in their loving attachment at-tachment to Franco." Britainc Respect France. King Goorge recalled that w'liile between be-tween Great Britain and Italy there had always been peace, It was once otherwise as to Great Britain and France, who had waged many a war in former centuries. "But," he continued, "in those days there was always on both sides a spirit of chivalry which forbade bitterness and when peace camo it was made with a sense of mutual mu-tual respect. We in England have always al-ways continued to admire the brilliant gifts of France, gladly owning our Intellectual In-tellectual debt to her, as "we own also our debt from oven earlior days of the I Versatile genius of Italy. I "That respect and gratitude havo furnished a solid foundation for the affection which has now grown up between be-tween your nation and ours. Consecrated Conse-crated by the memory of the heroes who have fallen fighting side by side in this war, animated by the same devotion de-votion to their countries and to justice, , this affection and this memory are pledges of our futuro concord. Such concord and co-operation will we trust, become under the blessing of Providence Provi-dence a security for peace not only to our own peoples but to all free Europe, which is longing to return lo the paths of tranquility antWprogrczi. 1 Day of Deliverance at Hand. "And you, sir, representative of the senators and deputies of Belgium, we rejoice to see you also upon our soil. Your country, wantonly and wickedly attacked and devastated, has had ter-I ter-I rible sufferings to undergo, but the day i of your deliverance is at hand. The British people who have felt for you through those sufferings have admired ' the constancy and loyalty of your people peo-ple and the devotion of your soldiers and earnestly wish for you a return of j that prosperity which you enjoyed and I which you gallantly sacrificed at the j call of duty." i |