IN FIGHTING MOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 23 October 1922, Page 4

IN FIGHTING MOOD.

Thp tone of foreign Press comment upon Mr. Lloyd Hporge's resignation suggests that journalists abroad are ir.ip< r foctly infortnpd of the conditions of British politics, and do not understand their man. Their comment implies that he is gone for good, or at least for a long time. Mt. Lloyd George, however, li:u no intention of taking his defeat meekly. He is- in tiphtinp mood, and ns Alan Kreck wuirld say. he is "a bunny tighter." The speeches he made to gathcrincs of Ins pur-porters at London, Lecd.- and other points bear the authentic Lloyd fieorpe stamp. His mvord is in his hand: at Bedford he remembers Bunvan and his

(rreatheart and Faithful; at Xottingliain he talks of a dog-light: at Leeds he docs ' not. believr the country will take its .orders from "n Went End club." Mr. Lloyd George is going to ina,kc the fight I a hot one. He will appeal to what the I'oalilion has done, and emphasise his concern "for the difficulties of this land, the education of the people, disarmament, the peace of Ireland, the liberty of Irishmen, and more liberty for India."' The thrust he made at Leeds, that these things "do not specially api>cal to Belgravia," ia pointed by the most mischievous hint given by the "Morning Post," the organ !of the. "Die-Hards" in favour nf interferi encri in Ireland. Mr. Lloyd (ieorge's main ! trouble in the buttle will be his organisation. When he threw down the challenge 'to the same f'arlton Club before the war, '• lie had the Liberal party solidly behind ! him. That party is hum divided, and the feeling between the two wings is bitter. Mr. Lloyd George has been captain of an 1 array ilinl we may rail A-B. and he now finds himself deserted by A, the stronger plly. The condition of A. however, is not free from anxiety, for while the w-ceders hare the numbers they went out in opposition to tho be.st experience and brains of the party. The position of the Conservatives should lie clearer after to-day's meetinjr of thr party.