THE LUNCHEON TO LLOYD GEORGE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15194, 14 April 1917, Page 3

THE LUNCHEON TO LLOYD GEORGE.

FURTHER SPEECHES. (Reuter.) LONDON, April 13. Speaking at the American luncheon to Mr Lloyd George, Mr Page said:— We have set out to help an enterprise having as its objectthe making of the earth a place worth living in. We have come in answer to the high call of duty, not for any material reward or territory or indemnity or conquest or anything. W ; e have only the high duty to'succour democracy when it is desperately assailed. Mr Lloyd George, in the course of iiis reply, said: When Americans were told they would not be allowed to cross or recross the Atlantic except at their peril, they could not think it possible that any sane people should behave in that manner. They tolerated it once, they tolerated it twice, until at last it became clear that the Germans really meant it. Then America acted, and acted promptly. Hindenburg's line was drawn along the shores of America, and Americans were told they must not cross it. America said. "What's this?" Germany said, "This is our line, beyond which you must not go." and America said, "The place for that line is not the Atlantic, but on the Rhine, and we must help you to roll it up." And they have started on the road to victory. The absolute assurance of victory must be found in one word, "Ships." With characteristic keenness, the Americans fully realised that, and already have arranged to build a thousand 3000-ionncrs for the Atlantic trade. The British are a slow, blundering people. But they get there. The Americans pet there sooner. That is why I am ,'<lad to see them irf. We have been three years in this business, and, having got through every hlunder, we have got a good start. Now we are right on our course. 1 suggest thai America study Britain's blunders and start where she now is—not where she started.

Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward attended the Anglo-American banquet.