THE INTER-ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 5

THE INTER-ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

AMERICAN OPINION ON LLOYD GEORGE. BRITISH PREMIER VOICED VIEWS OF WAR CABINET. Received November 19, 9.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. American opinion of Mr Lloyd George’s Paris speech, which the Government shares, is that no advisory body without full executive authority can successfully cope with the gigantic task of guiding the war. Unified direction of the Allied forces is essential. (United Service.) LONDON. Nov. 18. The Observer states that the War Council approved of the policy of the Paris speech before Mr Lloyd George went, to Italy, and that it contained no word of exaggeration or untruth. After nearly four years of desperate fighting, the enemy still holds the field arrogantly and confidently. If the war ended to-morrow the Kaiser’s dream of the hegemony of Europe would bo an accomplished fact. Fortunately,' the respite'hud been afforded for mistakes, and we can and will retrieve the position. SIR GEORGE REID’S OPINION. Auatralian-Nevy Zealand Cable Association. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Sir George Reid, interviewed at Philadelphia, expressed the opinion that the war will end in twelve months, because the present enterprise against Italy will end in an Austrian debacle.