LOST FRENCH PROVINCES.
BRITISH HELP IN THEIR REDEMPTION,
LONDON", October li. Mr Lloyd George, replying to a deputation, said that he' could not think any statement was more calculated to prolong the war that that of Dr. yon Kuhlmann regarding Alsace and j Lorraine. However long the struggle lasted, Britain intended to stand by .France until she h*d redeemed her oppressed children from the degradation of the foreign yoke. Mr Asquith, speaking at Liverpool, stated that the dominant factor we had to deal with was not German public opinion or Parliament, but the German Government. The world xvould nexer find a xvay to peace through a morass of equivocation and ambiguities. Plain questions had been asked. J.nt studiously evaded. It had never Uen our policy to annihilate or to mutilate <_r>_inuv.-_ j (A. and N.Z. Cable.j
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 245, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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