FIGHTING SPEECH BY' MR. LLOYD GEORGE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2764, 6 May 1916, Page 7

FIGHTING SPEECH BY' MR. LLOYD GEORGE

■ FRENCH ATTACKS ON: IQRT : ;; ;; ■;:; hoiie ; ". NEW " POSITIONS HELD AND EXTENDED '• GERMANS'MASSIG i BELGIUM \•■ ■ • • AUSTRIAN OFFICERS WITH : : Sinn fein Rebels CASMNT CHARGED WITH HIGH

The French successes at Mort Homme, on the Verdun front, have been-consolidated and extended, and attempts on•tho part of'the enemy to regain his.lost ground have been successfully resisted. The Germans are reported to he massing large bodies of troops in Belgium, and. at Metz, in 'Lorraine, wo are told, the civilian population is departing. A either of these two statements bears the.official imprimatur, and may mean anything or no thing, according to their degree of veracity. . French -troops from the Salonika Army have occupied Fiorina, qii the; Serbo-Greek frontier.- -The German reply to the, American' Note on submarine warfare ha 6 been handed to the American Im.bassador, at' Berlin. It is a voluminous document. 1 Tho British Compulsion Bill has: passed its sccond reading, a Feature of this stage of the measure, being a fighting speech by Mr..Llo.yd George, Minister of Munitions, .who declares that there is nothing inconsistent in tho application of the principle of conscription to a democracy. French .opinion.is greatly relieved that tho development of political 'opinion in -Britain has shelved the "wait-and-seo" policy .attributed to tho British' Prime Minister. The news from Ireland, shows that the rebellion is now a thing of the past, and tho pathetic business of clearing up the ruins and burying the victims of the Sinn Fein madness, ii proceeding;... Austrian officers; in uniform', were captured aniongst the rebels.. To the disillusioned Sinn Feiners the name of German is synonymous, with "cheat and scoundrel." ,Sir. Roger Casement is to be placed on trial in the Civil Courts on a'charge of high treason.