U BOAT THREAT.

Northern Advocate, 2 July 1917, Page 4

U BOAT THREAT.

GENERALLY FRUSTRATED,

EQUITABLE PEACE CONDITIONS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, June 29.

When receiving the freedom of Glasgow Mr Lloyd George said that after carefully reckoning the possibilities, the Government had come to tho conclusion, upon the best advice, that the submarines cannot starve us, nor drive our armies out of the fields abroad. Our losses in May and June, although heavy, were 100,000 tons beneath the Admiralty forecast. Arrangements have been made for frustrating and destroying submarines, and he had no hesitation in saying that if we all do our part submarines will be a* great a failure as Zeppelins. "You may be driven to eat less wheat and more barley and oats," he Mded. "We are running the war on our stock of energy drawn from that food." Alluding to Mesopotamia, he said: "What happened in Mesopotamia must be left to the Peace Congress. It could never be restored by the blasting tyranny of the Turk. The same observation applied to Armenia. fi Begarding the fate of the German colonies, he said: ''Their people's desires a.nd wishes must be the dominant factor. The untutored peoples of the world would probably want gentler hands than Germans to rule over them. Is there any desire by Germany to settle on these essential terms? The Austrian Premier repudiated the principle that nations must control their own destinies, but unless this principle is effected, not only will there be no peace, but, if we had peace, there would be uo guarantee of a continuance. Peace framed on an equitable basis would not be broken by the nations' abiding peace, but guaranteed by the destruction of Prussian military power.''