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Show LLOYD GEORGE DEMANDS UNITY Prime Minister Appeals tor Support of All Parties in Perilous Times LONDON Feb, ft. "By the Ahso-Clatfjd Ahso-Clatfjd Press.) "W.j aro enguged In a terrible task." sold Premier Lloyd CJeorss t" a speech Tiiesdnv. In which he defended the coalition government and pleaded for a continuation "f political unity. 'It is something more Important than defending myself and my administration, ' h0 declared. Me mked whether anyone OOtlld any that the need for unity had pu-ved, and exclaimed: r Irish to God everybody could, because be-cause it worries mc; It fills nie sometimes some-times with dread. WORLD IB REELING "If r.omeoiie could tell me that the danger Is past, .lomcone whose word w i ould take, I should be so glad that I would sign my resignation tomorrow." tomor-row." A world reeling under the most terrible ter-rible blo ever dealt, wnx the way h def ribed the situation, gigantic events weie id the making and old lactlonal fights among the parties should not be resurrected until the peril was over. The prime minister's speech wn? In newer to recent attacks against the coajltlon and the breaking away of some of the Important coalitionists. HOME III LI POLICY. He Pftld the coalitionist had given Ireland a reat'T measure of home rule than either Gladstone or Asiu1th had proposed "Hut added, "they say they won't take it. They must have an Irish republic, an Irish army, an Irish navy- They won't get it, and If they don't get it, we are told, they will kill our policemen, our soldiers not In open fighting, but aiding In hemes, wulklng as respectable tenant farmers or swaggering along the road to a hiding phice. where they find rifles. " DANGERS l ERIN. "Are we to allow that sor' of thing without protecting tho people we are II i ding there? (Cries of 'No'). There Is no isaue between us and our politi-' politi-' i ; i.'ipouenti I'll I omo ru le "There Is an Issue about setting up in indf pendent country by our very gates by the places where submarines used to lurk and sink our ships and endanger our OOmmerCe and the life of the nation. There Is an Issue as to Thither the policemen and soldiers who are there upholding the honor of our flag are to be shot down by men who lurk In houses. 1 know of no other Issue." |