COMPULSION BILL CARRIED

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9257, 26 January 1916, Page 5

COMPULSION BILL CARRIED

Mr Lloyd Georgs is reported to have made a striking statement regard ing the task before the Allies’ which ho sums up as being to dig a grave for the vicious German militarism that seeks to enchain Europe. The Compulsion Bill has passed its third reading in the- House of Commons. i , Floods in the Tigris continue to impede the march of the relief force which is attempting to reach General Townshend at Kut-el-Amara. The latter reports that he has sufficient supplies, and the enemy is mot active. A German seaplane attempted a raid on Dover on Monday, but was driven off. Fierce fighting is reported among the hills north of Scutari, the Montenegrins apparently making such a determined resistance that the Austrians have been checked. Vienna claims that Scutari has been occupied. BRITAIN REJUVENATED WONDERFUL RESULT OF ORGANISATION OF HER RESOURCES . THE TASK OF TO-DAY: TO OVERTHROW GERMAN BARBARISM. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright. (Received January 25, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. In tho course of a striking statement to an interviewer Mr Lloyd George said; —“We are going to win. England is preparing to put the whole of her weight into this war, and Germany will feel it in a very short time. It will be an effort such as Britain has never made before—a truly prodigious effort. Before the war we had the greatest fleet in the world. Now we have one of the greatest armies—an army which will, soon be about the bestequipped in the world. _ ‘ , ■ , “And that is not all. A new industrial Britain is being developed. Under the great pressure of war we are increasing and improving onr industrial resources to an almost incredible degree. We have introduced scores of millions’ worth of automatic machinery, which will have an enormous effect on the industries when tho war is over. In addition we are adding to our 1 already great army of industrial workers. We shall need them all to' repair the ravages of war. • _ _ _ .T'/. “The country, therefore, instead of being impoverished, .will be.richer in everything constituting real wealth. We shall be a better organised, equipped, trained and better disciplined nation. I fought doctrine of force when I thought the country applied it to South Africa, but I favoured this present war because I saw in it the only means of destroying the hideous German civilisation. Every happening since has confirmed what Mr Asquith has called ‘Our Gr’eat Decision. *• “There were two Germanys before the war. One was an industrial, commercial, and intellectual - Germany which was conquering tho world by the. success of its methods and example. • That conquest would have proved u genuine blessing. Side by side with the Germany we adniired was a military Germany. These two could, not live together. The rapid and beneficent development of the first Germany meant tha overthrow of the old barbarous Germany. The militarist Germany had made a desperate effort to re-estab-lish its predominance. It started spending money on its army and nary. We saw this meant tljat the militarists were determined to strike at the earliest moment. t “The Allies are now as firmly united as ever.” Mr Lloyd George said he refused to believe in the possibility of industrial trouble. He was convinced that only a very small faction entertained the idea of so hampering Britain’s gallant troops. The idea of industrial compulsion was the merest bogey, employed by those wishing to create trouble. “If the militarists in Germany were to nun their triumph would be permanent, and we should witness tho triumph of, a pernicious h,ut potent ideal. The Germany of quiet pacific development would vanish, and we should see a Germany of warriors seeking fresh hemispheres to _conquer. If we overthrow German militarism now it is because our command of the sea has given us time to reorganise and make good our unpreparedness. If the command of. these had mot been purs, we world have been, overrun as easily as the Balkans, witrin three months, and London would have fallen as easily as Belgrade. If Germany won the war Europe would be helpless and tho command of the sea would be taken from Britain. Perhaps in that event the Monroe Doctrine would not fare better than the British fleet. The Allies are engaged in a mighty effort to dig a grave for tho wicked He that ‘Bight is might.’ We shall not cease to strive to the uttermost until we have dug that grave deep and wide.” - ‘I