SPEECH BY SIR JOHN SIMON.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 5

SPEECH BY SIR JOHN SIMON.

PREMTER'S STATEMENT ENDORSED.

DOOR NOT SLAMMED ON PEACE

(Renter's Telegrams.)

(Received Dec. 22, 6 p.m.) t« +». ■ tt , London» Dec. 21. in the House of Commons Sir John himon expressed hi s desire to voice the whole of the Imited Kingdom's acceptance of Mr Lloyd Georfe's speech/ The German Note did not contain terms lending themselves to considerai \?' as in no^ise a peace proP<>sal. Mr Lloyd George had not slammed the door on peace. The nation agreed that it would be an unpardonable crime to allow the war to contmue^ onq unnecessary hour, and the deepest treachery to falter in securing, the essentially defensive and unaggressive objects for which we entered the war.