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The following is a full report of the and we are asked to lay down our arms, an emptint Germany, to annihilate Eager and keen for the glorious "push,

the tray,

primary importance and of perfect sin- indicating to offend the interests or the

TO TOMMY plicity, have been put, and the only common sense of the German people? I responts has been that everything hange have repeatedly stated and the same Never-downhearted, but always gay, together, and that there can be no promething has been said by every responsible Marching along in your absent way. ture and partial disclosare al sight, pean mor, of our policy to annihilate Casual, alapdash, and covered with slushy in the dimness of a rhetorical twilight,

bren part

Our warfare is speech which Mr. Asquith delivered at guard than that we shall be offering a chenty of liberty at home, which every Plastered with Flanders. Mud up to the

without any other satisfaction or safe waged, against Prussian militarism, the over the parapet racing away,

Rollicking cheerily into the sye Liverpool, recently →

time of the three virtues of Faith, Hope, tem of so-called “ Llacht

under Smothered with Mesopotamian flies, Mr. Asquith, who was received with and Charity:

which the weal have no rights except the

just the same, cheers,

going to the wall and the in Tommy, you are always

the earth belone by an in Is there a grousor that can resist

Everywhere ready to play the game.

That Power

Vad to have been you, and your brothor, the British Tar,

What a magnificent pair you are! conformity

This, as you know, is one of a series

unique exhibition at one and the same where also profesace and piti.

NO AGGRESSIVE ANNEXATION.

I is a

Consignes af Cargo are hereby nosisad of meetings which are being hold in our different, and, as we think, a more excel Powers animated by the Pprust Sticking it all for your country's mke

centres of population to make clear, both ourselves and to the rest of the world,

to

with

what it is that we have been, and still Precise, with clauses and sub-clauses, cavil the thout question or are, fighting for, and thereby, as we lates many

things as I have responsible for the outbraten

as

of to

be Joft

are a marvel and no mistake.

What are you out for in this mad war? What your ambition, your guiding star?

of the Prussian King are survei a you have what he

Been, and the real menace to European and

which

in

Honour and justice; the wrong to right.

Hell

leat way. No one pretends that it would Germany siste that all Goods are being lauded at thels

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chaptery and condition of old-wide peace. Ita ambitions were Grand is the purpose for which you fight.

preliminary Left the Godone, and all Goods hope, to accelerate the well-founded and peace remaining undelivered "ffer noon- of the 21st

in a world-wide conflict such reluctance to acquieses would be fatal tongue can tell, insting peace which has become the over said Dec.

Doc, will be subject to after mask be pro-mastering need of mankind (Chcem) set for discasion, and acgotiation; for to the realisation of Whist it has cost your no

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it is a war fer peace, and, next, that governing obiects the one of the worst thing that could happen for ng Who your agony seemed to share?

is a war against war. We cannot, of course, attain the second object until we

pence 1 mean an arrangement, or up

that they contain within S

the same battle you both have blod,

for freedom His Blood once shed:

Himself into the deadly strife,

Baving from tyranny, slavery, Biuj

is up to be Bons of God,

a transient and precarious halting-place, conformity with the aims and the spirierely a breathing space for the nations As Life Everlasting to win,

safeguards against the possible reopen share in the unexampled burden of the the Dove The

than that she in

wary ab

daily cost of

one

through perhaps the most the

ob succes

15

Bravely to trand in the steps

He trod

Hi Flag press on

Gallantly under His

Over the top till the war is won Though you may stumble, and sometimes

Life can be never the same again.

og of trife,

in material waste, and in NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

It is no part of our purpose in this

immeasurably surpasses any In regard to the territorial readjust suffering movement, as I understand it, and so farments, both in the West and the East of thing in the previous experiece of man. FROM VANCOUVER AND JAPAN. as I have any responsibility for it, to go Europe, of which I spoke in some detail kind Less than a

own brother, can feel for all. about the country waving the flag, and at Leeds, they all come under the head sive afternoons I

Helping to master the flesh within of the the Delville blowing the bugle, and as it were flög either of detaal restitution or HD Steamship

Loving the sinner while bating kin T

as tragie spot in the great battlefield of t ging the martini ardour of the nation. long-delayed fulfilment of legitcp Somme and the next through what were that He asks 18-the best you can. The British people stand in no need of pirations and hopes, Where is

His strength, are a super man. You, in having arrived from the above ports, Consignees any such incitements. (Cheers. Their tion Which of them involves annexation once the streets of the ancient town of

Xpres

It is impossible to conocive two Tommy you feel i

you feel though you can't ex- of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all teeth are set, and they are ready to go in what is called the Impericlist or more diverse and yet equally terrible plat Goods are being landed AT THEIR RISK into the on, giving with start their blood and fon of the occupied territory of France, object. Iessons in the meaning of modern

sense? Certainly not the evacua gressive their treasure. basardons and/or extra hazardons Godowns of

sacrifices which they and their Russin, Belgium, Berbin, Bouniania war. It the ono case smiling and Grandly you've fought in the Great Hongkong and Kowloon Wheel and Godown

(Cheers.) Nor, again, the restoration to fertile countryside hüs

Crusade, Company, Limited, whence and/or from the Allies-both greet States and small States wharved delivery may

have made, should be thrown be obtained.

wilderness, in which for a generat 27th Deo. 器

No, it is precisely beenuse we are awayFrance of the provinces which were taken far as the evan see into mul Goods not cleared. by

from her by force in 1871. (Cheers.) 5.

Brigade through the anoko clouds of the battleHERE RUBLMANN'S NEVER

is fruitful or to man can be made to grow. In in self-handoning Faorifice:

ow useful will be subject to rent. All broken, Go chafed

Gelds to the ends which made it our duty

way of case you have a and

how everyone great are to be left in the where they will be to the and which, until they akainininal by Messrs. GODDARD & DOuoras, are within sight of attainment, muko I on the this mater ing loss, in which it is almost literally sub

equally our duty to continue to wart Comment on the reference to this matering that which is almost literally Serves in one fellowship, commandes all that we think it right

with definite ing the full text. lie on definite Cole ecclesiastical pleby of the Middle

Aged ness, with emphasis, if need he with itera tribution it makes to the cause of Peaco inition. I make no apology, therefore, if, which the German Government professus the Cloth Hall and the Cathedral-are

in contributing what I can to the accom to have a heart is a flat

negation.

n. To anoking ruins which can never be re plishment of that task, I may seems from the question, Can Germany in ang stored. And yet with there scenes of with pitiless desolation still fresh in the time to time to le repeating what I have form make any concession

deliberately that I would Baid before,gla

regard to Alsace-Lorraine?" the answer memory, THE GERMAN PEACE MOVEMENT,

reckages

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Claims against the Steemer must be presented within 10 days of

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come

Commission in God's

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one of the municipal, the other

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Come back Brottiere

they will not be recognised.val, otherwise should be clearly set forth those ends Kuhlmann, of which we have this or other, wd two of the finest monuments. And tell us we're all to be

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BATAVIA, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL, AND SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

I wish, indeed, I could say the same of the declarations, inspired or uninspired, of the spokesmen and writers who ate for the moment the chosen exponents of Ger. man policy. What is the state of the case so far na they are concerned months ago, at the outgot of

in service united,

free

Come back and show us by God's good How to make Blighty a better place. W. Barnen (Chaplain, th

Suffolks), in the Commonwealth.

ho tells us is No, never He goes on rather see the see the wis go on to a de tory handed down to us as a glorios promise. The reason is plain Nothing worthy tribute we can pay them is 201 to say that the integrity of the terrifinite decision than that it should be brought to an end by an n inconclusive com inheritance by our

but a real, a trac, and an abiding peace to falter or full until we have built upon

be the object of any

can never

OF CON

of the new Chancellor on the Cssions. And what is the particular can offer, I will not pay any recompen their efforts and their sacrifices a world-

of this! glomonis

down from their*

and but any justification, for what has been embracing and impregnable fabric of dogs and suffered and encrificed liberty and justice. (Loud cheers.)

**An overflow meeting was presided over A moment outcos by Sir Charles Petrie Before Mr.

of

yeurs part of France, which which was

he it wentina INVAS which Cheers

Bit F E Smith, spoke. He said ho assumed the Germans would go out of

owed been for elevation to the triumpa

of the military ction in the inner councila of the Fin was French in sympathy and sentiment If it is to be a contest of endurance we Asquith's arrival the Attorney-General,

(cheers) was filched from France have no reason to lose heart, or hope: peror, the majority of the Beichstag agreed less than 50 years ago, against the pro Cheers) During the last fortnight our to a patchwork of formula, which was advertised to the world as

test, so far, at any rate, as Lorraine

able troops hav

have unconquerable Peace ion. We had a debate about it in states reuse of Commons, where there 48

concerned,

ned, of the greatest of German great thing as winning invaluable statesmen,

a

other

was

stimulated

Belgium,” but

there would be the war lasted 10 years

was to take the first place in France, States stood side by side, with a her and to hold the pass until the United

tales of our resources, in the last great struggle for conducted on an

em fellow famine, and victory (Chicera.) If Germany WEB re-

a disposition in some quarters to hail it.gard for the opinions or wishes of the ground; both in Flanders and 10 Meso did (Choers.) The final result was cer

parently, still pins his faith to the sub THE Homeward Mail Stemmer energing branch shared a doubts, which the Ger symbol of French humiliation. It public.opinion is constantly being fed and oarrying I ventured at the time to a price of German victory, but as the marine and the aeroplane and German from this port as usual, taking Passengere man Chancellor himself seemed to enter pointed out the

which privations erade and short-si day, this n tain whether he, or we, or anybody, un- the root and source of the unrest of imaginary for the supposed destruc-termined to go on with this struggle, wo and Cargo for the above Forta. Fassengers Roceramodation in the connecting vessel

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Rod

THE BEGHT, FOR: FREEDOM.

would support France to the last extre

vinces of Alsace-Lorraine. (Cheers.) Gor the most terrible war in history

There is need

Mr. Asquith, on entering the hall, wes confounded with the publication of the deftness, but even in its annals it will labour, both male and female, into n shouted, "What about Mesopotamis

better regulated influx of warmly cheered, but two or three women Chancellor's subsequent answer to the

be difficult

to find a clumsier or more dustries which are for the time being of What about Serbia?" "What about Papal Note,

transparent manuri than this ma paramount importance such for instance munitions?" One of the disturbers I do not doubt that there is in Ger- adroit attempt to sow discored between at this momcat

had fastened herself to & bench, and Mr. many, as there certainly is in Austria, duurselves and our French Allied.

duction n of steel,

the standing some widespread and genuine desire for peare,

JUSTICE FOR SMALL NATIONS. construction of aircraft. But this me while she was released and finally In the Reichstag itself, slender as are its

laintest danger of our being carried out. powers, and divided as are its coupséls, Herr you Kühlmann further telle not the Lain

starved while I

submission.(Cheers.) there

are indications of a growing spirit that the f great question around which as to the gir

ile. I hope and believe that of revolt against the methods of the Gov: the struggle of the nation centres is not, we shall very soon have achieved ernment. No doubt, as the events of the

Low days show it

But, things words), the Belgian question, and with the Exception of Alsace

e as we have over as they are, the dominant factor

there is what he curiously with which we German she have to deal is neither no absolute impediment to peace barren of any military respit, and they we did wise's and well to laws, tho

German But let us look again, in passing, at Parliament.

It is the German Govern- Belgian question, which it suits the Ger on the raly failed to shake the spirit sword in a cause 10 worthy of the test ment.

Does

Jusines? Is it man Minister to referatetat the Ality (Cheers.) has gone on every one has become con- eincere in its desire for prace! Depend to a secondary position. upon it the world will never find its way to peace through a morass of equi demand in the cases of Belgium is not. Take the Allies se a whole and thee adions that for wider and more moment- vacuation, but the full and per States of Amerion (cheers) whose con merely the protection and the develop

now include in their ranks the United our issues are involved in it. It is not. vocations and ambiguities Plain ques-manent restoration, in all its integristribution to the common stock becomes ment of the individual life of t tions have been asked which are studious of her political

and economic independ ly evaded.

Inst

lly tamed; till, it is she and in the arst instance (observe those

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The Original and Genuine WORCESTERSHIRE

thamine

Belgian

for the moment

as.com-

the Incursions of the Mr. Asquith Bnid-When the war hose of the hegan the issue that seemed to be the up to this moment, so far as most prominent was the defence of the these raids have been absolutely liberties of the smaller nationalities, and

the nerve of our metropolitan com traditions of our race, but as the war

the world as a whole shall have freedom. value to

survey the relative powers of an brave and

of a Belgium split into durante of the sides; measures them by or whether it shall be subjected in the

long-suffering tade two parts under the notably scheme de any standard, in naval, or military, or life of a generation to come to the

ised

terms: and after you have made | domination of the idea of force: When for every dubious or hazardous we so splendid young lives lest, 80 other DE

Kussia as an

of a Belgium anneled by fiscal

economic

by the late German Chancellor Or even for the temporary enormous waste of transure and of mate

ties into permanent, subservience to Gers

man policy? I have asked. tha

question

of

an aggressive force mal an infinite accumulation of human on can there be a doubt that the material, Puffering and of misery, in moments of

more than once was no

less than the moral, preponderance depression we are perhaps inclined to

prepared to

the

the

restoration real and

Tests

manifestly

and increasingly with our

KRATES condition

of peace cause? (Cheers.?

sense 38 an

I have got Loans moet boisterously

wer and Herr von Kühlmann, who enn

enn be

defiile ned precise when

is proclaim

GALLANT LAKCASHIRE TROOPS,

In such a gigantic and wide flung con

ing an absoluto nun poleumss in the case fic ag that which confronts us to-day, of Alsace Lorraine, preserves in regard carried on in, so many different theatres

Is it worth the cost? But do not lose faith in the justice and righte ousness of our cause I would far- rather that our sufferings were increased,

and even multiplied, that the war went on months and, even years I would rather face that appalling prospect that to the future of Belg

Belgium an unbroken both on sea, and on land, we are apt to allow all that has been done and all keralose sight of the units in the mass, and that has beer suffered, to be squandered Take orice more the case of gallant if I may invert an old saying not to and thrown away in some patched-up. Serbia (cheers) and her neighbours and see the trees for the wood Yet it is

is the Kinsmen

the Southern Blaw, or that of discipline and the heroism of the

none the less significant silenco.

indomitable Roumania (chegre) who tion or the single ship, of the and precaricus peace. Cheers.) Why

our

has America come into the contest; drawn

(Cheers.) They have hitherto brings to noth which frustrates and dynastic and diplomatie quarrels

lod a cramped to some extent a starved our enemy At us

Live She is fighting with us side by side for

ecause on the triumph of which out

future depends. (Cheers.)

ander almost unexampled diuities, has or the division, which makes possible the her sword and taken her place in the

splendid ext

exploits of been holding back the armies of Macken spl

armies and fleets ranks Has she any selfish interest to Ben These little States have as much whether in dash of an aggressive adserve, any territory to acquire any Fight to their P

place in the Bin the vance or what is not less important, in concern of any sort or kind, with the richest and most populous, and best-armed the

the patient Powers

Log the best laid plans of Europeu peoples Nothing of the sort.

bere in and even a mutilated, life. To give them with pride and

achievements their natural boundaries is not merely not an act of aggression;

to the to-night the

week of the Lancashire Territorial debt long since demanded by justice troops which have been bghting their way Alluding to the tightening of economic (cheers): it is to bow to that highest vigorously against terrific obstacles along pressure, Mr. Asquith said:The econo form of political expediency which the ridge which leads to Passchendaelewis factor of the war has become at leasf cognizes that there is no more noxious done in this way than that of the town factor. No greater service has ever been Lou (Chars) There has been no finer work as important ma the, military or naval breeding ground for war, and the causes

rendered by any naval force in the his wary thin, the existence of detached and country regiments, whether of and discontented the

to

revered from their kindred and their pro-itorial Force (Cheers) We glory with Navy. Let mot add to that the magnif- per home,

y

a personal pride in their prowess, and cent I will not say unexpected, co-ope

THE MOST BOLID OESTABLE those who come after us will never letation of every class of the community Lət me ganze here to ask. What is than their memory, die but think the only at home-towards the common

in such changes in the map as I have been (Continued as foot of neat Columa) (Loud obehrs)

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