"DEPENDS ON BRITAIN'S SEA SUPREMACY."

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 10 September 1917, Page 6

"DEPENDS ON BRITAIN'S SEA SUPREMACY."

WHOLE CAUSE FOR FREEDOM OF THE WORLD RESTS ON THE NAVY. FAILURE OP SUBMARINISM, PROVED. MR LLOYD GEORGE'S FAITH;IN RUSSIA. ■■ (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) Received September 8, at 8.45 p.m. ■'" LONDQN,. September 8, Mr Lloyd George in a war speech at Birkenhead said that the whole of the Allied cause for freedom of the world depended on British sea supremacy, which he, was certain would be more than maintained. The figures -he recently gave the House :of Commons regarding submarinism were' absolutely correct. They put an end to the enemy hopes. .The Russian leaders were repairing, under fire, the revolutionary machine and he was confident, that they would finally sueeeed. His chief concern was not the effect of Russia's failure on the'war, but its tlie cause of the world's democracies. Germany had only -now decided to invade Russia, because all her other methods and machinations there had failed, Tlie crisis in Russia should be viewed hopefully,; He believed Russia would recover and pjay.a great part before the end of the ■'•;■ ;■'■,' : \ ■■:■■'■/.