THE GERMAN STUTTER.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 1372833, 6 August 1917, Page 5

THE GERMAN STUTTER.

That Word "Restoration."

Germany Must Learn. Then We~Will Talk. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. Mr Lloyd George received a great ovation on rising to address a meeting at the Queen's Hall to express inflexible determination to continue the struggle for liberty and justice to victory. Lord Crewe presided, and the crowded audience included M. Sonnins,_ the Serbian Premier, members of Cabinet, many members of Parliament, oversea soldiers, and Allied Presidents. Mr Lloyd George, after paying a tribute to Italy's war efforts, said:— We are fighting to defeat the most dangerous conspiracy ever plotted against the liberties of nations. We have striven for three years therefor, not unsuccessfully, and we have checked the ambition of Germany. The Kaiser knows it is not true that the Germans arc fighting to protect German soil. Even now neither the Kaiser nor Dr. Michaelis are satisfied with German soil. They talk glibly of peace, but stammer when they come to the word 'restoration.' Before we enter a peace conference they must learn to utter that word. To begin with our gallant fellows. are gradually going to cure the Kaiser if his stutter. 'Restoration' is the first letter. Then we will talk. War is a ghastly business, but not so grim as a bad peace would bo. The Prussian war lords have not yet abandoned their ambitions, but there must be no next time. Let us have done with it! Don't let us repeat the horror! Let us make such a victory that national liberty, whether of the small or great nations, can never be challenged. The small nations must be as well protected as the big. Doubtless the Russian collapse is rather a deep glen we are passing through. lam not sure we have reached the darkest level, but across the valleys I can see the ascent. Russia "is still on the ropes and will in due time come up again. " We cannot allow sectional organisations to make peace. The whole nation makes war; the nation as a whole must make peace! The Germans say they they were satisfied with the result of the last battle, but Sir Douglas Haig has secured all his objectives. We have enough guns to smash the lines upon which the Germans for three years have expended willing and foreed labour. If the Germans are pleased with that battle, so are we. Let us continue thus to our mutual satisfaction." Mr Lloyd George concluded by making a plea to the nations for unity. He asked the people to keep their eyes steadily on winning the war.