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THE LABOUR PARTY.A
AD CAPTANDURI CRITICISM.
Loxboss, December 19th Mr. Lloyd George wound up bin cam: paign with a speech at Camberwell, in the course of which he objected to the mame Labour Patty because it did not epresent all labour of the United King donic, I only represented a small part of labour whose votes would be very largely cast for the Government
Mr. Ramaay Macdonald and Mr. Philip Suawden workern
were
-విధా
KESKIT ALL.
The Labour Party was
was not being 'run' zoal labour, but by Pacifists and Bo's bevest pare and simple. It would' Abe unsafe to trust the destinies of the
great
Empire to it until it was able
to verthrow this clique.
He did
not wish personally to criticise 4bfe Ramsay Macdonald, Hr. Snowden, Mr. Smillie and others, but if they had had their way Belgium and France would have been overrun, Germany, would nee have
the whole continent under her cruel heel and the Channel ports would havs beca in German hands
Continuing, the Premier said:
We should have been slaves and bonds- men of Germany If we listened to those men who are ruling the Labour Party st this mornent
The Premier asserted that the Liber *Tasty was not entitled to so call itself. y half of it supported the Coalition Party
NO GERMAN INDEMNITY YET.
Regarding the Germsa payment of war costs, he said that, during the first lew years she would be unable to pay as much as she could pay later on, because she had also got to repair the ravages of war Therefore, we must carry the heavy bot lens of the war at ртебеді.
He was glad to hear that the election had produced very little excitement and passion. It answered those who said that the country would be rent from top to Bottom. One extraordinary reason for the sachiness of the election was that there waa ino party which stood at the moment for
Turning out the Government
LEADERS TAME RETORT
LONDON, December 14th.
Mr. A. Henderson and Mr. J. Clynes have both replied to the Premier's criti-
of the Labour Party
Hr. Eetdorson said that Mr. Lord George had offered no evidence i
of him stalement about the Bolshev 2
On the contrary he (Mr. Henderson) bad ample evidence that the Labour Party Bought as earnestly as cho
triumph of democrationles
for
Mr. Clynes said that it was true tast Home Labourites bad extreme views, but dour out of every five Labour candidates Before the country had not been chosen by Extremists, but by great Trade Unions. dit was not true, therefore, that the policy of the Labour Party had been determined by a few Extremists.
TO END CONSCRIPTION,
OTHERWISE, FAILURE AND
SHAM:"
LONDON, Decoinber 13th. Interviewed by Reuter's representative, Mr Lloyd George said that he wished to make it clear beyond all doubt that he tood for the abolition of the conscript
in all lands... Armies
Without that
hat the Peace Conference would be a failure and a sham..
were
These great military machines responsible for the agony the world had Posed-through, and it would be a poor. of any Peace Conference that Leading
allowed them to continge. Any Délegate that represented Britain in the Peace Conference musɛ Labour to that end, the spanker sisted.","
AMERIČAN NÄYY
ALL GOING HOME FOR XMAS.
WASHINGTON, December 13th The Navy Secretary, Mr. J. Daniela, announced that every vessel in the American Navy now in Europe, which can be spared, will be resarning to home- water, arriving about December 3rd..
The bone coming will be celebrated by
ja review.
THE GERMAN PROFESSOR AGAIN STILL SUBTLY SOWING SEED:
LONDON, December 14th.
The latest batch of German newspapers, received in London, shows that certainly the more educated classes have no doubts that Germany has been utterly defeated. In this connection, an article in
the
Conservative forta quoting
by Profesor
is
Kreutz Zeitung,
the views
of a well-known student of foreign affairs
on the
is expressing
Germa
rounits of the world war. After saPIDY
ARROW
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coming
infancy
several Arberic
abocit a series of Investig“
rainfall and general conditions getresby favourable for tea growing, and reparted
bo the Netherlands Gopartiment, that moss
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Sserices, to Germany, Austria, Bal the Ottoman Empire
bafcial letter addressed to Abaden, was or Mohammerah in the Farian Gall may exceed eight ounced in weight
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both coast of China: between Hongkong and Lamonts. The mano s Now
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of the well laid out tes, garissa of-the section would yield 1,500 pounds of dry tes per aurs in the fourth year of cultare, which would be a record production and is Altet ankowo-even, in Javi.” He or
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always cool, but the variation in tempers- en smul farther potive, ture in very sight.": "Tek le grown on a Fadd
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THE NAVY LEAGUE.
The Nary Leegde has decided that
The application of steady pressure nyon Parliament and the Government, through the education of public opinion, for closer co-ordination between the Misses Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine with a view so the exigencies of W
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that the political centre of gravity who its future pelity shall be directed for
shifting more and more from Washing-wards the achievement of the following
the writer proceeds to objects
zeler to Britain's/"
officers and men of the Royal Navy site The support of all just claims of regal to pay, pensions and Prize
touto London solides Ts chimeguínation among the peopic Money,
Chines
Japan must strive
isher of the Empire, and British subjects in
in reall parts of the world, of exact u
Britain's Pt BitFey
The to so with the United Vagard to
On the
The stimulation of interest among the tesches and obildire of all classes of
England becomes of Greater value to Power as the keystone of British the United States because of the National mod Imperial Policy
tagonism to Japan Professor Bostrach thinks that in spite The advocacy of an all-powerfal Importance, as regards fin- Navy Air Force and Meresatile Marine the decisiv pover, as, a esult of as the factors essential for the security total defeat and break up of the of the Empire and the restoration of Central Powers has shifted to England
Child Seater diledge upon the provision and use of Sessols in the Empire in the Ses dad.
Britain to her rightful Mitres of this Bose
PRAISE PLUS INNDENDO 21
quating from review the The immediate reconst
which regseda England as the world now than
Mercantile,, tonna
War standartă. For the building
Services, as dominant factors in Imperial existencer and prosperity,
Theaterson of the Boys NATAL P Brigade Movement, and the establish-
proper view to
ution of
institutions
of boys
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