LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.

Grey River Argus, 23 December 1916, Page 5

LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.

SIE JOHN SIMUiN 'S STATEMENT. NATION ACCEPTS SPEECH. DOOR NOT bLAMMED TO PEACE. (Rec. December 22^ 6 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. . In tho House of Comons } the Rt. Hon. Sir J. Simon expressed his desire to voice the whole of the United KingT dom's acceptance of Mr Lloyd George's: speech. The German Note did not contain terms, lending themselves to consideration, and were in no way peace proposals. Mr. Lloyd George had not slammed tbe door to peace. The nation agreed that it would . be aii unpardonable crime to allow the war to continue for one unnecessary hour, and it would, be the decpes. treachery if by ' not fighting or other, wise we should falter in securing the essentially defensive and unaggrcssivc or jects for which we entered the war. GERMANY AND PEACE. OFFER WRONGLY INTERPRETED GERMAN (COMMENTS. (Rcc. December 22 } 1.15 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, December 21. The "Berlin Tageblatt" says: "Mr. Lloyd George makes an unbridgeable chasm.'' The "Vossische Zeitung" says: "It is fortunite that Germany possesses militarism to withstand the Entente's ambition to reach its world-domina-tion goal.