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Show TALK MADE BY Welshman Fails to Give Any Facts About His Program. MANCHESTER. Oct. 14. (By the Associated Press) Prime Minister Lloyd George's speech to the Liberals of he Manchester Reform club this afternoon expected to bo historic utterance, ut-terance, was u disappointment because the premier gave no intimation regarding re-garding his plans or his program. In that respect ids oration was similar to that of Austen Chamberlain at Birmingham Bir-mingham Friday. Of his address of one hour and 20 minutes ,Mr. Lloyd George devoted nearly an hour to a defense of his near eastern policy and to ridicule of his critics. in a brilliant peroration, recalling his services to tho nation, he said: 'I cost myself on the people because 1 have never betrayed them." When cries of "speech!" were heard, Mr. Lloyd George paused a ino-I ino-I ment and then commanding silence I With upraised hands ho said: "i Ihunk this great gathering for greeting me to this city where 1 come j to submit the case of the government I ' in the efforts which they have made ! 'toward European peace and to prevent I I bloodshed frQm spreading throughout, eastern Europe." DIS4 I vm s M u EAST j in beginning his spei ch at the lunch- eon and thus raising the curtain on a new act In the political drama which Imay mark a climax In the career of I tie Striking c entral figure Mr. Lloyd ! oil,-, ietcir.it to the Near E.iaicin icrlsls declaring the people of this country must not believe that their! government had endeavored to rush :Onut Britain into war "We have not beon war mongers but ' pes,i e makers." he Bald. The premier arose amid a tense si- , llence of expectancy on the part of his hearers who were looking to him to! begin the fight for his political life, I A great array of Journalists eagerly Belsed upon his words and rushed them off to the four corners Of the globe. t LLS PRESS QUEER Continuing his defense ol the gov-; ernment'i policy regarding the Near Fast, nil Lloyd George said the negotiations nego-tiations had been conducted in a manner man-ner unprecedented In thifl country. The government, he declared, h id been us-BSiled us-BSiled with misrepresentations, such as no government had been subject. The country would resenl this he declared adding thut there were q r people In the b t louse In the press In these days , w- task has been mnde much eati-ler," eati-ler," declared the premier, by the (Continued on Page Two) 'LLOYD GEORGE FLAYS ENEMIES j Speech Disappoints Be- cause He Says Nothing of Plans. (Continued from nzc One) 1 speech which Mr. Chamberlain with clarity and lucidity, point and forco ! delivered Friday. , "Our object in the action we took as three fold, the freedom of the stralLs, the prevention of tho war spreading Into It. and the prevention of the repetition in Constantinople and ! Thrace of the unutterable horrors of Asia Minor. FIlirMIl R I I - i l Klvv "The war of 1914 practically began 1 In the Kalkans. Wc had to act prompt-' prompt-' ly resolutely and firm. Bin OS I'JlA. ''the Turks, according to official tes-',tlmony. tes-',tlmony. have slouirhtered In cold blood I 150.000 Armenians and 600. 000 1 Greel's without any provocation at all." At one point in his sprech. Mr I Lloyd George declared "There hns been speech after speech I of intolerable abuse, and I am told to , 'bear It like a Christian, but there are too many people about the world who think It Is the business of Christians to bo massacred by Turk or pro-Turk I am not one of that sort of Christian.' Christ-ian.' A little further on the prime minister min-ister said : "If there is to be a change there 1 no man who would welcome It more than L I have had a long spell and la very hard one. I loVS freedom There are a lot of things I want to say. ' This statement by the premier was after he had turned to home policies, la subject on which th- whole empire was awaltlnjc his pronouncement- He nsaerte.l there were "die hard" 1 the ultra conservatives) on both sides. "There are some who would like to make me a die hard, and soon." i. tr 1 . n nuts. I "Ifs no use trying to bluff a first rato fighting animal," said Mr. Lloyd George, referring to the Near Ksst "It's always a mistake to threaten un- jlesa you mean It. The Turks knew wo meant It. and that's why wo have peace. "I am told we have departed from the methods of the old diplomacy That's a very sad thing; the old diplomacy di-plomacy ended In the most disastrous war this world has ever t,.on The amateur policies of 1&2- have ut least brought pi-ace. "I am sorry lo see that the Liberals ; have been pleading that It was none iof our business to Intervene bets' sen the Turks and their victims. That was not the old 1-ltcral doctrine. I maintain that the policy wi adopted I regarding Turkey was in accordancs I with the highest interests and traditions tradi-tions of this land and we have reason to be proud It SU( ceedSd." JLL I Bl BW 1 It 1 At one point Mr. Lloyd George declared de-clared dramatically, with his head thrown back: "As long as I have sword In my hand and God gles mo strength to 1 use it, I will do so." Continuing his dealing with the I Near Eastern situation, he said: "Sir Charles llarlngton warned us, that there were from 1 1.,000 to 30.0070 .armed Turks inside COI stantinople." j The premier told of the step (hal had b'-en taken to con'rol the situation situa-tion around Constantinople. "We recetvod a no ssage from tho 1 French government." he said 'tha If either tbs Greeks or the Tirk I Invaded the neutral one thay wt.ti liu' p to be resisted I, t r by Hi 1 allies. We accepted that. We thoutht they rnrunt it. ' r MJ. r Ol OW After expressing I is love of free dom. saving that no ono would wei-ome wei-ome a change more than he. the prime minister added : Three years ago I was snrtous I to go out and b.TTl Mr. IMinr Law to taks the offV-s He declined. I novst sought the pusltlon. 1 ncg I wished to retain IL But I will serve' ; my country In any capacity. "I shall watch many things," he 1 added. "I shall watch to sec how I we are to forgive Germany for reparations repa-rations and yet make France love usl more than ever, I shall watch how w'c are to pay tho United States all, we owe her and forgive every other 1 I country all they owo us. "It will be an Interesting expert-1 ment," the preml- r said, 'tc see the work of others. That Is ono of thoi Joys I hae in store. "I hae many friends among tnoi Conservatives and Liberal! and I cast myself on the people whoso raui.i I have ne. r betrayed during 3- years of public life." - 1 1 m RECOVERY. "The world has not yet recovered! from the war." he said. "That recovery re-covery would bo slow and tedious. My 1 course is a clear one. 1 srlll support 1 whether th.se mOSMTCO or. ?SS TtZUro! the slt- isJJSSH? llSKei toPabld, by his office, he said. . v,i'i -TS future is a plain one 1 hall claim no personal nor party gain MonePflclally It Is merely a speech - o-e the M ,n.-h.""'r i:ef..ri wtth th- guests limited to 30. but oAual v tt will 1- addressed to the enUre nation, for the premie' I gch Tin be broadcast with all posH.l-h.ute posH.l-h.ute by more than 40 newspaper and press association correspondents. Mr Lloyd George himself, in an impromptu talk from his train djli IDS halt at Stokr-on Trent Oft the way to sfanehsster, told the rnthusl-ailc rnthusl-ailc crowd at the station: I am going straight to tha Brltlsn public to appeal for fair play. mm B PRE88 I MM1 N I Austen Chamberlain's address or, Friday nnd the editorial comments hereon fill many columns In thM morning's papers. Tho P'nts most dlscuaoed aro lb. probabb effect of the speech on the ranks of M0 con-servatlve con-servatlve porty. the question of the, alleged inevltablenesa of some form, of coalition in the next parliament, and the conservative leader's references refer-ences to labor. The leading editorial of the mlnis-terlal mlnis-terlal Ially Chronicle Is mainly prulso of the present coalition The Dally Telegraph, also a staunch supporter of the government, warmly 1 ftdOTSj Mr Chamberlain's uttsram 1 1 tiirougn- out. making the point that bil dSSOTlp-tlon dSSOTlp-tlon of the laborltcs as a parly ct revolution Is "their own constant description de-scription of themselves" and declaring 1 heir principles predatory and destructive. destruc-tive. TIMl S KlTh li 8 H1M The Times says bis speech perhaps win help the conservative party to decide that a leader who Is "so blind to the realities or so contemptuous thereof can hardly be a safe guide, during the present crisis, of its fortunes." for-tunes." The newspaper condemns Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's "foolish and exaggerated ac-nunclatlon" ac-nunclatlon" of lober. While holding that many of the alms of the labor party aro unsound and that efforts to give them effort might bo disastrous" dis-astrous" the newspaper nevertheless believed that there "Is enough sound sense among the Knglish among tho workers to check dangerous labor tendencies.'' GOVERNMEX1 OCT i FAVOR. The Time: concludes: "The whole speech betrays an attitude atti-tude of mind which in Itself Is a demonstration that the government affected therewith Is no longer fitted to control the destinies of tho nation." na-tion." Bays :he Pnlly Msll: "It tVe e-overnnienr hnwe no hettOC rase than wos submltttd by Cham-, berlaln the Judgment will go acalnst thl m almost by default. Should the premier at Manchester be unable to advance a more convincing defense the government will stand condemned." con-demned." The morning Tost conservative organ, or-gan, says that Mr. Chamberlain Cld not announce in his speech his resignation resig-nation of the leadership of tho unionists union-ists In the house of commons. It con-j troverts the statement that the conservatives con-servatives acting Independently, would be overthrown at an election and contends con-tends that tho public, confronted by Chamberlain's, "panic alternative" of tho communists coming Into power, would silently resolve that tho present pres-ent coalition is tho very last and weakest bulwark against revoli:'on any sane person would choose. DOESN'T l l Ut I IBOR. "The mountainous travail of tho which Is not only rldlcm?. i IsssSsW deid.' the Wejtrnln..?tgSBBll i nis rw.i.u ii. .. ; r.ir ' inn itoned at tkSssH'' f a bl bi r j . eminent th,! '"sBBT 1 ontlnu.i ncc of th- Pre.n, assumes that Mr rvBSBBBH Kln is endorsed by hl ui,90Bsl agu. s in th. cabinet and tSssssssl fh.it an conservulivo rrr. rl0BB IU -he coalition will bav to (BT lif. Dallj News says Mr r-JT Iain's argument for lho SjB I PSH of 1 cnsplr.. 1 'wS J of the ihieo parties in the5M forming a government ft7t4B,l wlsh'- will b.. . r. i'.. I.v . vfS!Jl tion of the other two pr! -,"6BS' |