HUN CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS CRITICISED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12066, 23 July 1917, Page 5

HUN CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS CRITICISED.

THE WORLD'S FIGHT WITH AUTOCRACY, FRENCH WIN MOST MERCILESS BATTLE OF THE WAR. KAISER CALLS W TWO MILLION MEN FOR NEXT YEAR. MR LLOYD GEORGE IN A SPEECH TRAVELED THE NEW GERMAN CHANCELLORS RECENT UTTERANCE, AND SAID THAT THE EIGHT WOULD ( ONTINUE UNTIL LIBERTY WAS RE-ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. DEMOCRACY DEMANDED GUARANTEES lOR PEACE, AND THERE COULD BE NO PEACE WITH GERMANY DOMINATED BY AN AUTO. CRACY. THE BRITISH LINE HAS BEEN ADVANCED SLIGHTLY SOUTH-EASTWARD OF MONCHY LE PREUX. THE GREAT FRENCH VICTORY NORTH. OF THE ALSNE TS DESCRIBED AS PROBABLY THE MOST MERCILESS BATTLE OF THE WAR. THE BEST GERMAN TROOPS, REPRESENTED BY THE BRANDENBURG GUARDS, WERE DEFEATED WITH PHENOMENAL LOSSES. TOE KAISER HAS CALLED TWO MILLION MEN TO THE COLOURS FOR NEXT YEAR. TO MEET THE EXPETCED DRIVE BY THE ALLIES WHEN AMERICA TS READY. A MESSAGE FROM PETROGRAD STATES THAT PRINCE LVOFF'S RESIGNATION OF THE PREMIERSHIP FOLLOWED STORMY CABINET MEETINGS, AT WHICH M. KERENSKY CRITICISED MINISTERS' MILITARY HANDLING OF THE RUSSIANSITUATION AND THEIR LAXTTY IN DEALING WITH MUTINEERS. IT IS REPORTED FROM ROME THAT THE POPE WTLL MAKE AN ENDEAVOUR ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR FOR MEDIATION, PROBABLY RY THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRIA, AS AN INITIAL STEP TOWARDS PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.