BRITISH PREMIER'S VIEWS.
LONDON, July 21.
Mr Lloyd George, speaking an a Belgian Independence Day celebration, at .Queen's Hall, preferring to the Ger-, man Chancellor's speech, asked what hope oi" an 'honourable ' peace it contained. , The Chancellor w.as dexterous: in facing all ways. The speech' was the. .speech'-of a man awaiting the military issue:' Let the Allies bear that in mind.There were phrases in the speech that ■ ■ 'the German military powers would understand—phrases about " making the frontiers of Germany secure. " : That' phrase had annexed Alsace-Lorraine, and had drenched Europe with bloocf since 1914. That phrase, if they dared, would .annex Belgium and Courland, axid again precipitate Europe in a welter of blood within the next genera-, tion, unless it was 1 wiped out on the battlefields of Europe.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9051, 23 July 1917, Page 5
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