GREAT WELSHMEN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 10 August 1921, Page 8

GREAT WELSHMEN.

A LLOYD GEORGE STATUE. Press Assn. —By Tel.—Copy rigin LONDON, August 6. Mr Hughes, in unveiling a stati of Mr Lloyd George in Castle Squat, Carnarvon, in the presence of a enormous gathering of spectator said that in this statue of the greats son of Wales they saw enshrined tj spirit and genius of her race, h, vicissitudes, sacrifices, and triumph Mr Lloyd George, during the w„ comported himself ns the leader of great nation in the most critical y eai of its history. Many critics ivotl deny his claims to greatne-s, |, they only said what their prototype said of Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, at Lincoln. It was significant that b had travelled 12,000 miles to sit i a Council of the Empire under tb presidency of the great Welshma Wales was holding her own in the days. The natives of the ones j,

spised Principality .were proving cap able of playing a prominent parti the world's affairs, not only in tb British Empire but in the great it public of America. Mr Lloyd Geoq was a great histor : figure. In ib hour of desperate times Britain calls for the man, and he came ami ledi to safety. MR HUGHE: 1 HONOURED. JAJNDON, Augu.-i 6, Mr Lloyd George, in unveiling stained glass win-low in Llausantl rad village church, in memory of J Hughes's mother, leclared: “Wen proud of Mr Hughes, not only as Welshman, but c:. of the greata sons of the Empire.” Mr Hughes, in unveiling a vi memorial window, raid the ceremoi was emblematic o£ the great Empli to which we belonged. It was tb same spirit throughout the Empli that sent men act oss the ocean t France and Palestine. Bishop Frodshura dedicated bot windows.