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MR ASQUITH'S SPEECH,
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November 2, 8.25 p.m. Mr. Asquith, in the name of the whole House, expressed sympathy with the King. He was glad to say that His Majesty was anes more on British soil and was going on as well as could be expected. The occasion was one of which the House ought to take advantage to express its admiration at the manner in which the
King had always discharged the responsible duties (peculiar to these times) of Sovereign of this Empira. (Cheers,)
Turning to his statement, the Prime Minister said that he was afraid that he had doomed to disappointment many expectations. He was afraid that he would disappoint those who thought it his duty to appear in the guise of a criminal making the best defence he could for a somewhat doubtful past or as a white-sheeted psaitent asking for absolation. He proposed to adopt neither attitude, bat to speak as the head of the Government on the situation.
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We were as determined to-day as we had ever bean to prosecuts the war to a successful isso, (Loud Cheers) and to use every means to exhaust if assessary every resource in the attainment of our common sapreme purpose. (Loud obsera),
It was true that to-day some parts of the horizon were overosst. This war like all the great wars in history had been fruitful of surprises and disappointments to all the combatants engaged. It seemed at this moment that the situation in Great Britain called, in an exceptional degree, for three things-3 proper senes of perspective, (applause) and sa overflowing reservoir of both active and passive courage.
He did not believe that the British people as a whole show ed any lack of falling off in say of these qualities. All that they desired was to be told, as far as diplomatic and military exigencies permitted as to how our pause atond and to be assured in the main. tenance of the defence of that cause, that the Government and the people were playing a worthy part. (Applause). There could not be a grester mistake than to suppose that the Government had any interest in conoesling anything subject to one overruling.con- dition, that its disclosure did not assist the enemy,
fact that we began the war with six infantry and two cavalry Divisions. Mr. Asquith asked how did we stand to-day, and emphasised the Bat, in the operations described in Sir John French's despatch to day, in the operations daring September and October of this year, he commanded not far short of a million men. (Loud cheers). To this must be added troops in the Dardanelles, Egypt and at other theatres of war as well as the reserves in the garrisons in the United Kingdom and the outlying parts of the Empire. This gigantio force had been raised from the manhood of the United Kingdom and the Empire. He did not like to give the exact figure but it was an unprecedented number of man.
The contribution from India was splendid and well-known. (Cheera). Canada had contributed 96,000, officera sud men, (Obears). Australia 92,000, (Cheere). New Zealand 25,000, while South Afrios, after a most succésefal campsign in Garman South West Afries, bad sapplied important contingente for service in East and Central Africa, and, in addition, had furnished 6,500 men for servies in Europe. (Chears).
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MR. ASQUITH'S SPEECH.
either for the people and the Empire who had borne their part as He was not going to apologise (Load and continuous obears) magnificently, or for the Government which, to the best of its sbility-20 doubt with many shortcomings and mistakes buat to the best of its ability and, he believed with the confidence of the great mass of his fellow countrymen had o0 2trolled and organised and directed this great campaign. (Loud oheera).
OUR LONDON LETTER.
(From Our Correspondent.)
(Continued from Yesterday,) London, September 17.
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From Birmingham he want to Aus tralia, and as a missioner his dis- ciples were Lashmen, who adored him, for he fought with them; he Amnesty for Political Prison wse one of them. Hulton Bima Paris, September 16. Acc made the most obstrepercusing to a message publishe "tough" desile and good. And Milap, it is learned from when war broke out he rushed source that the Car has
ordera for an amnesty, in fa back to England, enlisted an a private in the Bedfordshires, and of political prisoners in Ru which will raanit in the libera by ahear soldierly_qualition won a commission.
of several hundred thousand ́u Mr. Eugene Corri, the famous whilst fighting against_nameless
Flight From Trente, Stock Exchange boxer and Re- odds, which to Hulton-Same 89, Idea Nazionale staten thai, fol Rome, September 16-- feree, has been giving some is am sure, the ideal death. Then ing a decree published by teresting reminiscences of sports there is Hugh Bagnall Gothing, Governor to-day, all WOD men who are engaged in this war, the wellknown Gloucestershire children, and old men are les --Mr. Oorri observes: "In the sportsman-at
all games he procession of gallants that passes excelled, especially at boxing ployes bave already depar The men of the Grand Fleet were living in the twilight as far has been made the real man by pion, and the best of the middle East 25 Russian prisoners, before my mind's eye everyone He was a public schools cham There left Naples to-day for as the pablic was concerned, unnoticed and unadvertised, but they the influence of this or that weights when at the University have been liberated by the Ita were performing with a proficiency and a vigilanos which it was impos branch of sport. In this proces. I was with him at the ring-side Army. sible to describe or even to appreciato, a service to the whole Empire sion, that rekindles memories some little time before he went to (Cheers). Where was the German Grost Fleet on which eo much talk,so of happy and joyous days, and the front. Fall of life, bubbling much science and so much money had been expended, and which quickens my senses to a better over with high spirits was heMr. Lloyd George, replying t Pisnty of Pomate Labour was to be a perpetual menace to the United Kingdom? (Hear hear) and finer appreciation of the his finely chiselled face aglo query from the Cape Times
Cape Town, September It was locked up in the Baltio; it dared not show its feos on any car where it could be encountered. The whole of the effective maritime representing every sort and on his hair of gold ourlier than ever."
British character, there are men with health and good temper, and reference to the proposed dispa and military resources of Germany upon the seas, after fifteen months dition of life-the blue-blooded From the Ring to the Arena in making manitions in Engla of war, was reduced to the sporadic and constantly diminishing efforts aristocrat and the plebeian. There of a few submarines which sent to the bottom far more inis Norman De Crespigay, whose cularly with boxing, and indeed cables: Very much apprec
Mr. Eagene Corri deals parti. nocent and anoffending civilisus than any military harm they had father, Sir Claude, though in the ring has given of its best to patriotic cffer of South Afri doos. There figures were more eloquent than columns of rhetoric, the mid-winter of his career, is the arans of the war, Mr. Corrimen. At present, howe and he could conceive no better medicine for any who affected to be in khaki. He was killed many observes: "There is downhearted, or doubtful that the Empire was playing its part in months ago. A fae, enientific eligible gentleman boxer who of unskilled women labour in i there is a fully adequate sap the greatest struggle in history.
boxer was Norman De Orespigny; bold back, Off to the Colours at handsome young fellow. I refereed glorious roll of honour will as claver a boxer as he was a once did they rash. A long the last bout, in which he took there be at the National Sport The Telegraaf learns from Brus part, shortly before the war he ing Club when the day of reckon that since the last British Bud brought a boxer to try his hand ing comes; a bulky catalogue ardment of Zeebrugge tbe u against one of whom Captain Rome of the names of members who mans are more vigilant than ev thought ever so much and the have fallen I could compile. And On September 7 the coastal troo two met at Swears and Wells, the secretaries of all our best ware thrics alarmed, but ea Mr. Asquith touched briefly on the campaign on the Western Bond Street. Captain Rome's boxing olube could do the same time the alarm proved to be fals considerably more than twice the total of the original expeditionary the first to congratulate the win have done and are doing their quisitioning everything useft front where our total casualties up to a week ago were 377,000 or prodigy wos. De Crespigny was The professional fightera, too, The Germans still opalinge force; and said that happily there had been a very large per centage ner. Later he suggested that dats nobly. Slackers are glori- Besides corn and horees they no of recoveries from wounds which placed the net permanent wastage there was no just osase or impediously fow. Many pagiliste bave demand iron, sheet from, gas pipe on a much smaller soslo. The Prime Minister affirmed that hement why he and Captain Rome won could not pass over without paying a tribute to them, the supreme should not have the gloves on. MeEnray of the Irish Guards-a
dietination. Sergeant nails, etc. fighting qualities of the Russian soldier, which had never been And the two adjourned and fought professional boxer was he in daya
A Chivalrous Soldier. more splendidly or more exaspionously manifested thin during the like the gentlemen they were of peace-has for bravery on of Whitecross-street, was gun At Old-atreat, 'Thomas Olifoto recent retreat. (Cheera).
a grim set-to it was. Do Crespigay the field bean given a lieutenancy. moned for using threats t and Rome enjoyed themselves to There is Ivey. Smith, just Sergeant Rassell, of the Kay the full-anch was all out, and "sorapper" who is the first Hebrew Welsh Fusiliers. after I had given my decision (I to win the Viotoria Cross. There stated that he was in Whiteoro
Prosecuto doided that De Groupigny had Private Braddock, who has street, when he saw a crowd, and won) the two sat down to a full been deuorated with the D.O.M. found three friends. I can imagine how Do them regarded by narrow-minded, about twelve years old. Ther bottle, the best and closest of and there are others, many of heated discussion with a boy
men haviag Creepigny would fall on the bat anaemic people as merely rough, told the boy his father was a Cer tlafield his eyes would be ablaze, thick-eared fellows, who have ho would laugh at fear; he would shown unexampled bravery, Thowhereupon the defendant became Prosecutor intervened The people in great Britain had the greatest confidence that scorn death; only would he fight foot is that apart, boxing abusive, and the former ther on our own important and highly successful campaiga in Mesopota-inseparable Rudra would ultimately and before long roll back the side of invasion to the last gasp. And of iry" especially, has come into its king remarked, "If you want to figh and reverse the past, (Chears). He would like to say, three words and Francia
Greafellihe dom. The French boxers, like the Germane, don't fight this little mis. (Cheers). The object of sending a force was to secure the cent men.
twing, magai- their English confreres, are play-lad, bat put un khaki and go into neutrality of the Arabs, to safe-guard sur interest in the Parsisa first
Francis was the ing their part manfully. Car-the trenches.'" Galf, to protect our oil-fields generally, and to maintain the bath fighters to the finger tips an income of anything up to that the sergeant's protestion of V. 0. of the war; pentier led the way. He gave up in binding defendant over, said Mr. Clarke Haff authority of our flag in the East.
nothing mattered to them, only $20,000 a year rather than be the boy was an excellent example first, Francis soon followed just times, and these days he is a soldier. honour and glory, Livg went out of the greatest fight of all of the chivalry of the British
s they would have wished, fally qualified aviator. I am Battle to them was only another sorry to say that he is suffering
Resunited After Imprisonment, different from pola, at which they oident, but he is as happy as a Justice, has returned here with Havre, September 15. M. Carton form of sports battle merely from the effects of a second anda Wiart, the Belgian Minister of
the more glorious, And there age I had from him he says, has been releseet from the im won such renown because it was sandboy, and in a recent mess Mdme. Carton de Wiart, who Are the two sons of Lord Des-"I make no fortunes in prisonment in Germany, to remember as the Admiral Crich-could. For there is this war. I writing to her husband. Their borough, whom wa shall always single night now; I wouldn't if I which she was sentenced for Julian was one of the best boxer I don't I care not-if I live Ipanied them. M. and Mdme, de son of Sport both have gone, may live through it, but even if two eldest children com the public schools and the uni-half-ba white champion of the Wiart hope that the remainder
He did not think that, during the whole course of the War, there had been operations more carefully contrived, and more brilliantly conducted or with better prospects of flnal success (choora). He now came to a not so machequered chapter of the story of our operations in the East: namely that of the Dardanelles. From the moment that Turkey entered the War it was no longer possible, from either a strategio or a political point of view to centrate our entire energies in the Western theatre where the Tarks threatened the Bussisus and the Caucasus, and indirectly Egypt.
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anchequered land and river operations" up till now. Sir John Mr. Asquith the related a brilliant series of absolutely Nixon's force was within a measureable distance of Bagdad.
The Tarks were able to close the Black Sea and our supplies of a great lasting effect upon the attitude of the Balkan States. Russian wheat from the Black Sos Ports. Their entry also produced Consequently the Government had to face the question of the near East not merely strategically but had to consider in consultation with the naval and military authorities' advicere the best and otherwise, Great Britain in January had insufficient military most political Course
either aggressively or The Prime Minister also referred, amid cheers, to the splendid local defence of Egypt against Turkish attack which ultimately forces available for service East to do more than, prapide for the contributions from Newfoundland, West Indies, Obylon and. Fifi. He emphasised that these figures regarding the Dominions and was defeated in February. the Colonies were remarkable and significans, but even then they of the naval attack on the Dardanelles. After fall investigation tinguished father, were wadded again when the war is over, not in Belgium, will be able to rejoin The Government had then brought to their notice the possibility versity; both, like their dis world. I will put the gloves on their family, who are at present did not include the questions of preparation and maintenance and consultation with the naval experte, including the Admiral to sport; both won their men to before. of units in the field and the future expansion of contingents
Garro has gone; them. Kime, de Wiart proposes already supplied, or the very large number of men from all commanding that part of the Mediterranean. Notwithstanding them because they were sports. Pegoud has gone; many of our to continue on behalf of her fellow parts of the Empire who had made their own way to the United some doubts and hesitation in the mind of Lord Fisher, the men. And shere comes, to, be dying men have gone. I remain, countrymen in exile the philan Kingdom to enlist (Cheers). He should also add, to complete that Government felt justified in sanctioning the naval attack. People fore me the Rev. Hulton-Bams. though I am hurt, Bat I shall thropic work to which she devot aspect of the story, that in Rhodesia East Afrios and the West Afri. thinking and saying that the attack was initiated without a full oled sa referes when he was soon be all right, and I hope toed herself in Belgium. can Colonias important additions made to the existing local forces review of all ite latent possibilities are entirely mistaken.
the Public Schools Champion- take the place of Garros and had been placed upon the field; and that in other Colonies and Admiral on the apot and the War Staff of the Admiralty and before School,
It was most carefully conceived and was developed between the ship as a boy at St. Paul's Pegoud and others."-- Dependencies more remote from active military operations all defen-
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(To be Continued i sive organisations had received profsand stimulus,
soy final decision was taken was commonicated to the French when he went up to the 'Varaity Mr. Asquith then turned to the work of the navy and the trans Admiralty, who entirely approved of it and agreed to and beat each and every oppon porting of troops since the beginning of the war. The transport de-acclaimed by the illustrious Grand Dake, then commanding would not think of him as a participats therein. It was enthusiastically areneived and ent brought against him. : You partment of the Admiralty, for the army alone, had carried two and the Russian army, who rightly thought it a half million officers and men, 320,000 sick, wounded and nurses, himin
would assist fighter and yet in thering he was the Caucasus The matter two and a half millions of tone of storea sad munitions, and 800,000 |reviewed ovor and over again by the War Council. The operation the tougher his opponent the bet-Winnipeg:-- The number of charge from this date.
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a terror; the harder the fight, horses and camels, Those operations involved thousands of voyage then conceived was purely naval and we could not afford at that through sese which, at one time, were subject to raids by German time, Earl Kitchener asid so and we all agreed, say substantial mili- oruisers and which even now (though believed to be rapidly dimin ishing in strength,) are infested by submarines.
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ter. I confess to a liking for the Saskatobewan grain growers con- muscular Christian-Hulton-Sama tributing acre gifts to the Empire was the quintessence of muscular is estimated at 5,000, aggregating It was a meat remarkable fact that, up to the present, the loss I take my fall share," said Mr. Asquith, "of the responsibility for
It was therefore decided to make an attempt with the navy alone.ation he was ourate for some pounds of flour, which will be Christianity. After his ordina wheat yield of five million of life on the whole of these gigantic overaes operations was consi- the initiation of that operation." (Cheere), "My full share He was beloved by all; the young wan millora, sud which the Domi- dorably less than one-tenth per cent. (Cheers). He did not believe (Renewed Cheers). "And I deprecate more than I can say the attempt fellows among whom he laboured nion Government will transport that, is the history of the world, any nation at any age could produce to allocate blame to one Minister or another, or to suggest that some were in his hands eo mash molten free sofoss the Atlantio to Liver-charge
time found about Birmingham, ground at cost price by Saskatobe comparable record. These figures did not include the millions of Loss of stores carried for the anvies of the Allied countries. And, undefined personality or great authority and over mastering will con metsl; he won bis way to their pool. The contributors are of all Mr. Anquith naked, was there anything comparable in history to the trolled and directed the strategy." Rotual service of the navy itself ? (Loud Cheers.)
hearts beesuse he could fight and nationalities, including even Ger- (To be Continued)
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