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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1).

THE PREMIER IN HIS DEFENCE

▲ REMARKABLY FRANK SPEECH.

LONDON, Nov. 19. Immense interest was taken, this amoon in the debate in the House of Commons, initiated by Mr. Asquith on the Premier's speech

at Pariz

The House and the galleries were rowded. M. Venczelos was seated in the Diplomatic gallery,

The discussion arose on the motion for adjournment by Mr."Asquith,

Mr. Asquith laid down two proposi tions which, he sa, he hoped would not be controverted. Firstly, in the war, the ultimate responsibility for what was done or was not done rented

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LONDON,Nov.

The Times Tokia Correspondent states that the Mitaster of Finance, speaking at Osaka, said that a Japanese expedition to Europe would

the speaker waN"

opposed to Rapallo agreement would not have the appointment of a Generalissimo, been passed. I know very well what Such a scheme would produce tric would have happened and I did not tion. Mr. Lloyd George said he want it to happen. I wanted this believed the United States would thing to be a reality. All this talk have preferred a Coune with an about easterners and westerners is executive authority, but he thought utter bildexlash. The Bekl is north, that circumstances at present did south east and west and our busibe impossible. not demand this. The New Council [ness is to put pressure on the enemy would actually, not merely nominal ly possess information which would be at the disposal of any one of the Allied Stafts, therefore, a permanent

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every point of the compase and ment attaches the greatest import hurt him where we cah, and that ance to the Paria, Conference in view why we want a Central Council.

We need all the experienes und of the probability of questions on channelled that, centuries must have help we can get and our Allies need Japanese military aid arising.

Toxio, Nov. 19. Regarding is still greater than ours at present.

We want victory and will get it, but Japan will be represented at the do not want the whole-bunden to full Paris Conference, by the Ambassadors on Great Britain; therefore, I want an inter-Allied Caunei! that will order and naval and military attachés inseen; tradition says that they date from the whole battlefek so that the London and Paris.“ whole of the resources of the Allies shall be thrown into the conflict in the enemy. (Cheers.) order to bring pressure to bear upon

Council was essential. the Italian Front it was very difficult to answer Mr. Asquith's questions, There was a good deal to be said about what General Cadorna had said and what we thought we knew or believed or suspected a good deal. General Robertson could not press things in respect to another Front

Mr. Lloyd Georga said he did not | but under the new Council he would withdraw a single word of his Paris have been in a position to do so. speech. He strongly and categoric The fuet that the British and French ally asserted that no soldiers in any war had had the strategical position troops had to rush to Imly to re-less interfered with by politicians, grieve the disaster must affect the The soldiers had never got & more

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was vitally important that frequent and intimate consultations should be held between the Allied statesmen

TWO ANCIENT OAKL "In the roug

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pastare close at hand stand two of the oldest oaks I have aver

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and soldiers, and the co-ordination fit had been decided that the mere the advice of soldiers in this war. artillery preparation in two sectors of preservation entirely to the fact that

WASHINGTON, Nov 19. Mr. Baker, the Secretary for War, in his weekly.communique says Heavy

the British and French, fronts presages

further offensive.

they

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ried cargoes safely year by year, or ever fought for England in her old sea-fights. And I am happy to feel that Sussex in likely to keep her woodlands for the time reason that so many of the forest

Front was not because it was the ran bucking in speeches. They bad received in 1917. He did not Italian Front, but because it affected were no substitute for shells. Only the Westerh 'Fronà niso. Therefore, on two occasions had he acted against machinery of a fason between the Once was in regard to the big gun officers, occasional meetings of the manufacturing boo many and programme, when they thought he

second case was when be pressed upon the soldiers the appointment of a civilian to reorganise the rail-al ways behind the line: Policy and strategy were inextricably interwoven and those trying to separate them and to foster disunion were traitors, Whether it was done for personal, rancour or for political envy; it was" equally treasonable. "Are we..to tolerate men in this country who,

"The railwaymen in the Cardiff district,dim, perhaps, but theousness-very Imm purely political and personal

Dot mean intelligence or memory, but reasons. disseminate distrust and have decided to strike unless their wages perception; it is impossible to see jealousy of Fmnce in the breasts of are increased by 1 weekly, within a Englishmen ?**

should be as complete as possible, Nevertheless he deprecated the

interfaring with the responsibility of the General Staffs were utterly in the General Stuff to the Government adequate and ineflicient for the pur- er derogating in any way from the poses of real co-ordination. "You

■uthority and responsibility of each must have constant permanent of the Allied peoples to their respec-body constantly watching those tive Clivemment. He emphasised things, advising upon them and that Mr. Lloyd George, at Paris, did reporting to the Government, not mention, the Nagy, which in | Mr. Lloyd George emphasised that many respecte dominated strategical the representation of the Navy was BonsiderationA. Ho neked which afterthought. It was essential would decide a disagreement between that all information regarding the the Allied Staff and the General naval operations and co-operation should be known to these military adviseret That was a different thing from the establishment of a Nava! Council to co-ordinate pavul strategy. They were suffering from a lack of

Staff?

..

Sir Edwart Carson, interrupting. said: The War Cabinet

Continuing," Mr. Asquish said the object of the present debate was to dispel certain misapprehensions aris-co-ordinated nuval strategy at pre ing from the Paris speech. Ha

sent and dbyone knowing what was

(Speech incompletes).

THE WESTERN FRONT.

LONDON, Nov. 19. A French communique states :--- The artillery duel continued during

THREATENED RAILWAY STRIKE

week

tracts are so honeycombed by ald iron. diggings that the ground could never be used for anything but ferestry."

1

QUILIVED. GENERATIONS" OF MES, "These old living creatures have out lived perhaps thirty generations of men- I always believed myself that wherever I do

LONDON, Nov. 19.life is, there is also

A WELSH DEMONSTRATION OF PATRIOTISM.

LONDON, Nov. 19. Mr. A. C. Edwards, Liberal Member for Glamorgan, has written to the King

Etin 7.amb, dest and motionles

breaking out into lead in the springtime and not to feel that there is a conscions joy about its energy and loveliness Bhad and

se, within it believe there is a sense of sunshine and frost, of strength and decay. There was the same life in the scorus out of which the tree sprang as that which stirs unbroken in the oss it has all been one continuous life. Year by year they have thed their sex, and doubtless there are trees in the wood land all about which derive their lift it is the same order of life as that by South Wales minen, who voted in which we live or something different in favour of a combing out, are men and kind it is impossible to as, so, little de

we know of the secrets of life.. LONDON, Nov. 18.

youths liable for service, so that in ́s

OF ANCIENT LIFE. QUIETNESS OF Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig secret ballot they voted in favour of

There is one thought which the old calling up themselves This Mr. Edak suggest, and that is the sense of the reporte

The enemy's artillery was active wards adds, is the most beautiful quietness of the ancient life that must during the night.

demonstration of patriotism that had have been lived hereabouts. The mind

draws picture

cture to the scene. It was yet come from any industrial population. mostly, I suppose, vile ston, and mandy

pointed out that Mr. Lloyd George happening in the Mediterranean the night time on the riglit of the pointing out that three-fifths of the from the old patriarchs. But whether

knew there was a great deal to be Meuse, notably at Chaume Woods

said for such a Council.

Turning to his Paris speech, Mr. | Lloyd George said Let me say at once that I considered it carefully

The Scottish and Warwickshire troops carried out successful raids in the neighbourhood of Monchy-le- Freux and Greenland Hill, to the

north of Roeux.

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GERMAN REPORT."--

LONDON, Nov. 10/

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EXILE FOR CHANG HSUN

LONDON, Nov. 19. The Times Poking Correspondent states that Chang Haus (the leader of the mcuarebical coup) will be exiled to Reunion

A German official message states: Between the coast and Becelaere DEATH OF A FAMOUS PAINTER. there was firing of great intensity.

with a few little

tracks. There were cleirings, no doubt, where the forest folk in their little tim bered huts kept Law beasts, bad some fruit trees and bits of garden; there were berda of pigs, no doubt, acorn-fed, wild boars not very different from the which routed in the forest.

There is not, to my knowledge, any ancient castle or great bouse anywhere neer, but at a placastill- called Dans Hill, not far away, you can see the anciens Lidea of what must have been a very strong forthegen jede u

PAZZE CONTRAST..

equally shared the responsibility regarding the invasions of Serbia and Rumania. He afgned that the Premier's view regarding Serbin was not shared by any weighty military authority in England. The theory of a sirigle Froat was perfectly sound and that I did it for a deliberate and the corollary thereof was that purpose. I have seen resolutions for the Ally at one end of the line might unity and co-ordination. Where are best be helped by a maximum effort, they? You might us well throw being exerted at the other end of the then into, the waste-puper. basket. line. It was the sacred trust of the Lord Kitchener started with these Allies to see that the future freedom schemes in 1915 and I have seen! snd security of Serbia and Rumania other schemes by M., Briand and was adequately assured. After allud. Mr. Asjuith but somehow they came ing to Mr Lloyd George's assump- to naught because you have natur fion of detachment regarding the ally the disinclination of independent recent events in Russia and Italy, bodies merge their individualities Mr. Asquith said he doubted whether into a common organisation. I was. A Counc! at Versailles, lost March, afraid this would occur again. We would care affected the Russian went to Rapallo with documents situation. The Premier had regaled most carefully prepared and pre- the good people of Paris with irrelev-viously submitted to the Cabinet-- Ant rhetoric. Was it not a fact that (Cheers) and, substantially, the The Daily, Telegraph Military Coc- Geneal Cadorna was full of con document which was passed fiderte and serenity on the eve of Rapallo was the document prepared the German attack? Mr. Asquith bere," I have it in my pocket." lase winter, to place the Britis

The lives of the little lords in the dequred that the Premier's reference (Cheers.) After referring to what he

glades must have been course and

rough Command under General tothe Western Front auggested that called a beautifully drafted docu-Neville and says that General Neville

and cruel Perhaps it was an easy and

free

Efe for the few stronger men, but the blood and bravery of the British ment, approved by a number of men proposed, in January, an Anglo-

for women and children it must have, -Dominions had been squandered including distinguished soldiers, French pool of reserves for a tre-

been wretched business very often. There was little law and order disease when, strategically, they could have which had been carried by three mendous blow on the German centre

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was unchecked and unrelieved; the

much been better employed. Never were Allied Conferences, Bir. Lloyd, George and professing readiness to Berse reports

Was no education, Ettle religion superstition. Probably the delices operations more carefully concerted said that nothing happened sin under the Entish Generalissimo, A strong raiding party, this morning, here were rougher and hardier, those at than those of Field-Marshal Sirply the announcement in the news The proposals, after much waste of entered certain pointa of our trenches least who survived but if civilization: in the neighbourhood of Gillemout his brought with it anxieties and excite. Douglas Haig on the Somme and in papers that at last we had found time, were partially accepted at the Farm, to the south-east of Epeby. We ments, it has also brought with it justice the later stages of the French defen meana, of co-ordination. There has Calais Conference but were never counter-attacked across the open and and kindness and tenderness, and sive at Verdun. He doubted whether been too much of this. (Cheers.) carried out. The Correspondent ejected the enemy after sharp fighting.

One trenchen to the south-east of

THE WAR DIRECTION.

QUESTION.

LONDON, Nov 19.

respondent, Mr. J. Denies, states

that Mr. Lloyd George attempted,

Army

LONDON, Nov, 19 The death is apcounced of Sir Charles Holroyd, the famous British painter.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

ENEMY RAIDS REPULSED:

LONDON, Nov. 18--

"One is disposed to contrast this quiet forest world unfavourably with our own bustling days, when all the news of the world come to the farms and cottages round about, and when the train puffa

South

among the woodland We are

to

are inclined to envy the old dwellers the untroubled calm in which they lived and worked and I'died. But this is sil▲ false and romantic notion. I imagine. that in a region like this there must

been much E19027, and wes

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any lied Council which was wisely made up my mind to take risks and states that the problem of a single farincourt were raided early this MAGDAL

tive adventures elsewhere. We had

now be

morm

no doubt at all that the new order is infinitely better than the old.

KIEP KIMPLICITY AND QUIETNESS, It is so easy to think of the added cares and complexities of civilisation and to dream of the old time when life was quiet and simple and light-hearted. But we have to set against that all sorts of ey conditions and afflictions which warred against happiness, and I believe LONDON, Nov. 18 that many more people are happier than A French communiqué, says:

they were then.

What a should try to do is to keep

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Med sympathies are, the more trast and affection thers is in the world.

guided would have interfered in I took them (Loud Cheerst command of the British and French either of the two great offensives in rouse public sentiment, not merely Armies is very difficult, bus it must -the West, in favour of more attrac here but in France, Italy and now be solved and the only way of America to see that these documents securing universal agreement on the no reason to be ashamed of our war became an act. I know nothing of subject of a single command is by contribution. We had kept the seas military strategy, but I know some the free interchange of information tree and expanded the army inta 770

thing of political strategy--(Laughter and ideas between the military Themis intermittent exiprocated the amplicity and quiemes of life; bus Divisions and we had placed our and Cheers) and to get public leaders in the Supreme War Councillery firing in the Vaudessous region and arsenals and our, credit at the dis opinion interested in a proposal and The Day Chronicis states that the towards, Schoenhole, being lively and the more that buman being know of continuous north of Hill 314, on the each other the wider their interests posal of the Allies and so we would

to convince them of its desirability crition pursuing disruptive tactics will right bank of the Meuse: continue to the end. (Choers,)

is an essential part of political be disappointed in to-day a debite THE PREMIER'S REPLY.

strategy, and that is why I made as nothing sensational, and certainly, Mr. Lloyd George, replying, said that spesch and it has done it, not a crisis, need be expected al more important than anything he had (Loud Cheers.) I was determined though the agreement, as read by said at Paris was to decide whether to deliver a disagreeable speech Mr. Lloyd George in the House of greater unity of control was nooded which would force everybody to talk and, whether they were taking the about this scheme. They have talk right way to secure. He reaformed about it in two or three contin ed that we had suffered by lack of ents and the reault co-ordination Any criticism he had

directed against the

Alled Commander:

opinion in Ameri

Commene, does not mention the fact that there will be ex Allied Naval Stall also sitting at Versailles, operating with the Military Stan

public

The first meeting of the Council Italy will probably be held next wear

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no doubt at all that if we could return to the past and see with our own eyen

the life of those forest settlements wo

andder Abould turn away with from a bad dream, and that whatever civilisation had of unrest and fret, at least it 1 and to much that Was TETSU

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