PREMIER SPEAKS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17396, 6 February 1917, Page 6

PREMIER SPEAKS.

Pif'HE NATIONS DUTIES.

GREAT SUPPLIES OF MUNITIONS

:i' GERMANY'S SEA POLICY Wli ' DENOUNCED.

;5 ; NO TIME MUST BE LOST. y-i.Au/straiian and N.Z. C»bl« Association. • LONDON. February 4. l&The Prime'Minister, the Right Hon K- Lloyd George, addressing his constituents at Carnarvon, pleaded for a fair trial for the new Government.

it had saved hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping and arranged loi: the construction of hundreds ot thousands of new tonnage. Ho eulo%ised the Munitions Department, and said that when the time came to supply shot, shell and gun s of all calibres shere would be ample, and even sur,sus for the Allies. The present hitiddlc iu the Balkans was due to improvidence, hesitation and lack of imagination. The Allies were jointly blamable, but the Balkans was the only theatre causing anxiety. Germany's latest sea policy would reveal the- Goth in all his nakedness, even to jhV most neutral. Germany's offer to America to send one steamer weekly to .Europe was insolence almost amounting almost to insanity. But Britain would overcome the submarine Menace by the grit, energy and courage of tho nation, which must be suppprted with money, labour, land and courage. There could bo no peace without victory. The Allies must demonstrate that the Prussian Baal was a W. 30 god that could not protect itself, let alone the German people. Peace Would come in ISI7 if Germany knew that by holding out till 1918 her position would be worse. "

rlf urged by nece&sity, _ the British Empire, by' organising all her resources, can and will do more than she is doing at present; and, with the object of seeing what can be done, the first Imperial Cabinet will continence its sittings in a few ■weeks. It is unthinkable that tho great German territories can be dis-. posed of after the war without consulting the Dominions, since they had Shed their blood in acquiring them. The Dominions must share the responsibility when considering this issue as part of the settlement of the great world problem following the world's war."

v.He appealed to the_ nation to. help to achieve victory by subscribing to the war loan, growing food and economising consumption. He added that the assistance the Government would ask the public to give must be given without delay. There •must be no loitering and no lingering. Time, which was hesitating and had perplexed neutrals, had not yet decided to which side he was going to swing the terrible scythe. "For the moment," said Mr Lloyd George, "the-scythe is striking both sides, causing great havoc, but tha hou£.wiH come when it will swing finally JtiMme side or the other. Time is tne most deadly of all neutrals, and so let lis enlist him amongst the Allies. The only way to win Time is not to lose time, whether in the workshop, the council chamber or on the field."

A new Britain, said the Premier, would reappear when the smoke of the great conflict had cleared away. Its commerce, trade and industries would he new. There would lie new conditions for Capital and Labour and new relations between them and the State. Old principles would survive, but there ■would be a new outlook. In a few raging years the character and destinv of the whole race would be determined for unknown ages.