MR. LLOYD GEORGE REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 49, 21 November 1917, Page 5

MR. LLOYD GEORGE REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS

THE NEW WAR COUNCIL STARTING THE REBELS ■ OF-RUSSIA lON GEIP OF THE COSSACK LEADER DEATH OF SIR STANLEY MAUDE As was previously announced, Mr. Lloyd George was invited to amplify in the House of Commons the somewhat startling statements ho made in Paris lost week in reference to the formation of the new Allied War Council. At the time the British Prime Minister was severely criticised for the pessimistic tone of his speech. To-day ho justifies tho Paris speech as a deliberate and successful attempt to rouse public sentiment in Prance and Italv-pnrticnkrly th o latterMo a proper sense of the gravity of the situation and the urgent necessity for an immediate unification of tho Allies' war plans and co-ordination of their operations. The situation in Russia is about the same as it was yesterday. We aro informed in one dispatch that the position is still obscure, but that the Bolshevik element has gained complete ascendancy in Petrograd aad Moscow. But a grim hand has been laid upon the extremists by tho long arm of General Kaledin, the Cossack leader, who, reaching out from Southern Russia, has paralysed tho food supplies for tho rebel cities, and confronted them with starvation. Sir Stanloy Maude, tho brilliant commander-in-chief in Mesopotamia, is dead, after a brief illncs.