THE KING'S SPEECH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11927, 9 February 1917, Page 1

THE KING'S SPEECH.

MDRESS-MEPII. ! SPEECH ES IN THE HOESE OF LORDS. Australian »nd Cnf>i« I ('Receiver) February 9. 9 a.m.) ; LONDON. February 8. | In the House/ of Lords., tiio. Chancel- \ lor (Lard Finlay) read the King £ j spreeh. ; I.oicl Stanhope, in moving the Adi , : l r es--uj-Reply. said that the enemy j troops, urg'd torvrarl by t-hft Prussian | jackboot, trod underfoot, every Divim- \ and human law. The .suffering T?cl- | gians, Armenians artd Serbians cried ; out against, the murderous tyranny of the Germans. Thc> war had aroused 1 yi the Empire a. spirit of grim detenni- ; nation Tie-ver before witnessed in Wve | history of iho British raco. 1 Lord .Ttathcreedan (seconded the Ad- | dress-in-R-eply. j A SANGUINE EX-MINISTER, Lord Orftwo said that our superiority ; on the 'West, front justified the. most | sanguine hope- of larger operations tnis j spring, J LORD CURZON SPEAKS- \ GERMANY DENOUNCED, ; AN OUTLAW AMONG NATIONS. Lord Cwrzon stated that six peers ]iao- been killed in the war, besides 120 | peers' sons and sixty-two heirs, threatI ening thfi extinction of night peerages. The House of Lords was no it- like a ; house of mourning. The Imperial i Cojiferenco was not intended for the j purpose of constructing a brand new ; Empiro Constant ion, but nevertheless j ifc wits u great .step forward in the mat- : tor of Empire evolution —namely, the recognition of relations with donwnionr} on a basis of equality. The dominion*' views on constitutional and other sub- : jeets would be, heard, but i;hero was in- ; sufficient time to frame a new consti- ; Union. The conference would be the ! first leading to a new Empire (,/onsti- : fcution. The dominions were invited not merely as a complimentary recognition of their part in the war. buttheir lenders worn brought over for the purpose of helping in the prosecution of the war and the setilomcni, of peace. ; The eonf<>fence was summoned lor throe ; objects—-namoly. to arrange lor m- • creased vigour in carrying on the war, to discuss peaco terras. and to de- : liberate post-war questions, such as demobilisation. Germany's monstrous new outrage on the seas proclaimed her an outlaw among nations. America* ' after patience unexampled and unduly j prolonged, declared that it would have j no further dealings with an unclean : thing. The. mora! judgment of the i world was delivered against Germany. I Doubtless others would follow President ! Wilson's example. There were others ] who would hke> to do so if they could, i Germany's submarine campaign was an 1 act of desperate madness, but it was : premeditated and well organised, and', ■ therefore, its peril must not be underi rated. Possibly, too. enemy atrocities , in the coming months, would, surpass • anything hitherto experienced- 'lhe i real and terrible crisis of the war was ' being approached. ;md Britain must be ■ readv with all her resources.