▼HOW VICTORY WAS WON. A TWO MR. LLOYD GEORGE
YEARS RECORD.
ON
The Prime Minister addressed an es. thusiastic gathering in the Coliseum, Lads, on Deceraber 7th. He anid: It is #w yours to this very day when, I was
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH. 1919.
who worked with me for two years.
there.
› THÉ TIME FOR TAKING RISKS.
1Wilion-telling him what the facts were England the wages ranged from 18s, to was mential that we should 158 and 156 a week. (A Voice: with bonitation, thay panel Hand
help at the speediest pos
Shame 1 Think of maintaining B new energy and new inspiratie | Aminglism to send 150,000 family on that. every department which he
It was a scandal. Take the subiugrins ; menace,, kees, Infantrymen and machine gunners per (Hear, bear.) Before the war, I was the most formidable menace we had to mimob to Europe, and, if he did that, doing my best to create a little disturb
to ment II Germany had succeeded in her we would do our best to help to darryance in his country to call attention submarine
bave them sent that telegram across to those wages, and to try to get some means beeth warfare, the war would lost.
You could not have Lord Beading, and the following day of raising them. Here comes this Goy- your troops to France, and you came a telegram from President Wilson: ernment. In the middle of a great war, summoned by the Sovereign of this cona. could not have fed the troops who were Send your ships across, and we will wo fix a minimum wage for the agricul
tural labourer France would have been cut-off send the 120,000 men.”. (Cheers)
We sch up B Wages from the
the world. The Americane could
Board to consider what he can live on ry to form on administration for there have got there, and Germany would
and these men in the South of England, purpose of conducting the war. This is
have ruled the carth..from ocean to ocean,
who were setting 158, 168., or 176., a week, and she knew it. On the other hand, if not an inopportune moment to invite my
work! (Cheers.) What clee has this Gor that submarine warfare had not surecoda
are now gotting between 30s and 40s. to fellow.countryingn cast their eyek back
ed, Britain, in the end, with her ser
ernment of reactionary lords done? Wo to the condition of things which my col-
power, was bound to win. (Cheers.)
have the compulsory cultivation of land means that you have, in legislation, for which has not been properly used which leagues and 1 were called upon to deal with. I was a grave condition of things.
the fret, time, a recognition of the prin Three of
ciple that land is not to be used at the Things were not going well.
whim of any individual, but is to be used for the benefit of the whole com- our Allies had been overwhelmed by the
1000munity. legions of the for-Belgium, Serbia, and Rumania, small nations, but countries
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which had, in the aggregate, an army of have got more essential commodities into antile marine-the good old shine of
one million men. The Kings of two of those countries were exiles and fugitives in other lands. The third country had almost entirely been occupied by the for, and there was polbing left in any of those three cases except a broken remnant of what at ong time bad been formidable armies. Russia, beaten and driven back,
many
mary
with
wo
Jere
De
RECORD OF PROGRESS.
WAS. O
scores of thousands of square miles of we came into a in the year before balance-shret and found Germany had have been more fruitful in progre
her territory occupied, was on the eve of Here, worked up. The rationing system J. had before, that a new Ally had fallen order to boast, but because it has a
complete collapse. At the end of each of the years 1974, 1915, 1916, Germany found
in
Then I invited Sir Joseph Maclay, the
and said: street, Shipping Controller to 10, Downing- Send every ship you can. They were all engaged in cesen- tial trades, becauso we were cut down There was nothing hing The first thing, therefore, we concen right to the bone. 'trated upon was boating the submarine that was not essentini. We said: " campaign. Look at what these men did.is the time for taking risks We ran First of all, they brought the whole of risks with our food, we ran risks with our shipping under control instead of essential raw materials We said, "The you had before thing to do is to get these men across early half of it as What was the result 1 Although millions at all hazard." America sont 1,900,000 of tons of shipping had been sunk, you men across, and out of that number 1,100,000 were carried by the British mer.
Then there was the question of the this country than you had before. Why U
raising of rents during the war owing Because it was good business manage Britain (cheers) the ships which have ment at the headquarters. Imports were saved the liberty of the world many a to the needs of the people, as during the restricted, and only essentials were time, saved it in the days of Queen Napoleonic wars, when rents were doubl brought here. Ships were built. We did Elizabeth, eaved it in the days of Louised and trebled, because there
we XIV, saved it in the days of Napoléon, shortage of com. That is not a bad not build a9
ships wuld have
I obal- liked we did hot build saved it in the days of Kaiser William record during two years of war ships
11. (Load cheers.) It is a change from tonge my min to go through any two expected. But this
fabour,. Daccamber, 1916, a change from the days yearsret government during the last fift this year. we have built between three and four when at the end of the year we made our years and point to any two years that times as many
office. The food supplies acquired more Allied territory then she legislation than the last two years. hear, Why do I say this! Not was set up, and let me say this of Lord, and that another Ally was tottering to
When Rhondda's rationing systems, that it her fall and that Germany was advanc bearing on the next five years,
you are asking who is going to carry out ing ruthlessly along from conquest to It so, distributed food ing abolished Queue
was the story up to the this tack, and who is to carry these great yas no difference between the conquest there
"The Ger the poor (Cheers)
social reforms which everybody is agreed end of December, 1978. and
What is the story to-day? Every Ger upon,
upon, I think it is pecessary yo should possession than when she began the year had two or three months before the war
cheers.) The best battle undertaking it. There are two distinct She was advancing.. What about Bri- was over, called aftention to the
Britain bad sustained two in Britain, and pointed out how superior ships and cruisers and torpedo bouts of branches in the work that is waiting the
Germany, af
are now, with lowered flags, country. One is legislative and the other tain?
it was to their system. It was a system,nder the surveillance of British
is administrative, and, of seamen
two, Lord Rhondda the lenst let.
at me pay, for which bumiliating defeats from
ministration is going to hear
British harbours,
to play and the
the greater Fladin
There must be legislation, but formidable and most despicable of her gave his life,
he saw the success of the
• Ang tsk. fcheers the British Army.
baz administration is more important. Look os, Turkey, Ong of her armies had be, has paid such a set for which Army, which has fought so
with A horoisa which the world at it. Housing-the re-housing problem due before he passed away. atter a prolonged conflict, beep driven he received the gratitude that was hin
in this country is more administra- (Cheers.) has never matched, not as in the wars out of Gallipoli, another British Army Thon attention was given to the home of old, where you had a great battle, tire than legislative. Then there is
and another
grost
eat battle three montlle health The reorganisation of health in haud surrendered to the Turks in the East, praduction of food, down by hundreds afterwards, and in between matches and
hat
constant strain Lipntry, is a problem of administra transportation and her prestige in the East was damaged home production was down by hund
發 my judgment, about the upon
That is condition on land Britain had been dean men away from the fields into the
the endurance battlefield. In spite of that, this year,
courage, upon most important
portant you, cah have feated by the Turks. There was
1916, there were 4,000,000 the fearlessness of the heart of man-for largely a question of administration, and
the ent dont forget that in
Bresciat me acres under
Government
two or you have got the in that year.
of the whole which those who organised this agricu)
behind the Land this hour marching lines in across the
of administration. To crosse of production-all those who or- shoers)--into one of the most famous
for of Germany.
this citige story-8 great story. due to the valour, to the endurance
Cheeran grest | ganised the output in
5 in 2 are members of the presoft-Governmeze
All these are
are questions or administration, and that is why I am calling attention
mans
herself with more. Allied territory ip her themselves, in an official report woman sub in a British port to examine the record of those who ar Bystem day.
poor
Hear,
I am
singes,
one
from one end to the other. That was the of thousands of acres. We had to take perderve, upon the strength, upon problem spart the
Wo
upon the
the
Turkish army menacing Egypt, and compared with 19tivation than we bad four years the British Army.
We
wero
were on the defensive. housing the desert in front of the
Just
In hourly fear of the Turks attack.
cheers)
That
of
after
the
WHY BE
UPSET
WHEN
A
ST. ANDREW'S
WAR BOND
Temos
Machinas
adi
Com
That is something for rough it. and to ear of fight three men who reorganised That was the situation at the tural production have a goud right to ing and of ang that Army is to
the trans Bystem Des day: Rhine into Germany→→Cloud is rudation of Bettlement-that lostes, we had failed to break folo feel pleased and proud.
ing
us.
end of 1910. In the West,
through the enemy lines, and, actually, before the attack was over, Germany had withdrawn Bome of her divisions from the battlefield,
FIGHTING THE BUDMARINE,
Then the submarine warfare, the sub murine itself, was dealt with. The convoy make it difhout, and even impossible
nt
بنانية
it
of our
and sent them to th East. At sea, nur zub. was set up for the first time, so as to troops and our sailors. All Dean santhem. The record of the Administration
marine losses were growing, and we were
We had as yet found no effective means of destroying these dean peats. At
The
to do
Our
поша
Bands PyThen Pea of our sail
Chee
them
18
at
As
Bu
to
na" the Nity, and that is all I. claim for molès this warha
D
for the submarine to attack our ships. is you had the same valour in 1914 and
maine campaign.
on the eve of the great unrestricted Thing Bared millions of tons and thour-
in 1916 and in 1916. The mom who fought loss shows, at any rate, whatever they the men who fought at may say about these men whom they are for Festu there were devices for
and on the Bomme were just attacking in the Administration, that
they who hurled back
afraid o dauntless as the men
d of progress, whatever are not submarines. Gradually, destroying
in we had as yet taken no effective month by month, we were chasing the German army in 1918. (Cheers.) they were the
(Laughter and past. But valbur is in vain if there is dis- cheers Some of them were a little of grappling with this peril.
There with thees new designs, pursuing them, gupplies were dangerously low.
organisation, lack of
armies. unproved us all. If it
it has not was no rationing system with the result busting them through the deep, and you
an undoubted have no notion of the persistoney, the of vision, to energy direction, absence timid in the past, but I think the war chance as well. Well we have not got the quality for that the well
(Laughter.) advantage over those who were notes skill, the daring, the endurance which You must give the Army a
We cannot wild oultivation of our land has been put by the British sailor into
1017 the men who worked with me well off.
during animal.
and 1916. But I am told we are a Hidden in the deep, night reactionary
royed us. It is only bad metal that is had gone down by hundreds of thousands the hunting of this of acres. Our shipbuilding in 1916 as (Chest)
Government, and certain no batter when it is hammered, and the between one-third and one fourth what and day, sunshine and storm, up in the react
Our im-
names are always quoted as the bogey hammering of the last four or five years frozen waters of the north, the torrid
Can you has made us better if we are good metal. it WR
was the year before the war.
waters of the south, cast and west, ocean, men progress. They say, poris had been inadequately regulated.
straite,
Bcthrough the expect any good to come out of any Then there are people who say, "Your our shipping had not been brought comm-
with-
help your ths, day by day, hour by hour, the Lord Bo-and-So in " pletely
rol; shipowners were
you to carry it but we do not quite trust under
control
ye know them. you to carry it, and we want to go in consequently, making huge profite, and
their fruits shall
it." When we were not making the beat of our ships.
(Laughter and cheers.) We have had in order to see that the men who
I think of the record three Government during this war-three Governments. I have been a member of want to be returned to Parliament to see that my colleagues and I do not slack, the thres.
it fills me with amusement (Laughter.)
A TERRIBLE MOMENT.
had
1
of
ONE CURIOUS FACT.
A
or
by
by
to
the
German
NOTE OF WARNING.
Bad
even.
out censing, hunting, chasing, pursuing, fighting,
and destroying, until at last fight this pest was got completely under. Now that was the condition at the (Prolonged cheers.) Believe me, in the of 1916 There was a good deal of hesita
have been deci- whole of their glorious history, the Bri- tion where there ought
claytish seamen have never been greater than delay А він There was a good deal.
where there ought to have been protapti in the last five years. (Cheers.) Then the time came-the time came when Ger- tude. There was a good deal of mere many began to realise that her, submarine In fact, I may tell you one curious
Well, we have got through. We have news where there ought to have been deter- mination and, if that condition of things campaign bud, failed, and Hope went out fact. I am the only Minister who has been of her heart. Despair come in, het
a Minister-the only Minister in Europe got through the worst times this country bad gone on, I hesitate, I dread to the moral began to be shaken, and she saw from the first day of the war to this hour.
think
has ever seen, I remember when, in 1916, what might have happened. When
nothing but denae blackness around her, They have gone in England (Laughter.) I said it was essential there should be Government fall, believe me, there was
and it was the beginning of the defeat They have gone in France and in Aus a knock-out blow there were a good many no one anxious to take its place. So far
of the senéd of defeat tria and
and in Germany They were change who thought I was expecting too from there being a scramble fox that chief the beginning
in Germany, Those who organised that,
I do not claim that it
had has been place (laughter)--we were all anxious.
not merely the seamen who carried it in a case of the survival of the fittest given and what is important now in I wish to pass it on to someone else, and
out, but those who organised it behind, laughter) all I can say is that. I am that, to should not throw away the fruits that some of those who suggest the son-
Do not let us are deserving of the gratitude of their
(Cheers.) the only man who remains in the boat of victory. (Laughter.) trary had been present at those inter
I have been member of
look on it as
it were merely a We had to take great
ent risks. 3 views,when we were trying to consider country.
I will three
war. Governments during the ar, trick
cricket or a football match which we have who should undertake the responsibility. tell you one risk me had to take.
You
What is the record of the first two! I won something that we road
coloura of the put the heard a good deal of the side-showe. cannot recall single progressive mea-
ing papera sure passed by either of the first two winners on our breasts, and go home or these side-shows were. There was no eagerness displayed for Laughter.) Well, I will tell you what
Mesopotamia, Governments. There was good as in following morning get up with a
elsewhere and enjoy the victory, and the the post. Every man knew, and know Palestine. That is the East. The Bri-doubt that is could not be done. Then too well, what a terrible responsibility tish Empire to these gentleman was a
And then return to our comes this reactionary Government, and
us see what it has dom) Well, ed. (Laughter and
(A Voice: Vocation
though sheers. would be east upon the man who had side-show. Our prestige in the East was lett's the epuff to give 'em,"
That is the the post. It was a terrible moment a mere, little, insignificant consideration. the history of the war. I have sonThe Balkansa side-show. And they now, I mean to give it 'em. (Laughter.) wrong spirit with which to take this patriotic men who knew the facts, who d
It has been
a great shaken convul- Awere not tainted in the least with pacific-aid to us, "If you what to defeat the Let us look at the record of the reaction- great war.
ere is sion that has shaken the all, there is submarines, take
earth your troops away from ary Government. First of
and victory these side-shows. You are ism, come to the conclusion that
Seven millions of the Francbiso Bill. wasting your
the nations. Empires have fallen--the You are u was impossible, and that it would end in ships.
Bring women enfranchised for the first time. are running risks.
Austrian Empire, Empire iho ... Supposing we had done (Cheers.) There is only one thing that and the Russian Empire Great, power- at the end of 1910, and you you bag them home over the land, not amongst men about There would have been no one to attack
is that they do not exercise it the Alpine rocks they are shattered and whose patriotism you had the lightest
the plains of Europe. which scattered over have been brave (load laughter)
they can use for improving the
of life for their ow
own household, for game? Do you think God does things the war, but looking nt those dread facts,
Ho was a hero everywhere except on the their were beginning to the condition under broken.
Is victory pos battlefield. Turkey would not have been is trust which
We should had to. abandon (chised for was
There is sible?
(Cheers.)
Seven
of
a great purpose in it, and do which the Sovereign invited me to form Mesopotamin, with all
disastrous in the East, and
time-not bad for hot let us forget it. (Cheers.) Do not
The whole
hole throw it away by bickerings. Have you I did it, I won't any with four, but prestige stands for much in
put on a basis which makes rond the life and speeches of Oliver Crom- I did it with trembling I I did it with
(Hear.
hear.) Wo should
well? There, after years and years, they this cont knowing
really country, for the first I did it anxiety, but
that it
been doing
best to .our
democratic country.
won through and had catablished dar bad was my
What is the next thing TRO the most ineles upon which the fabric of free- But innamuch ne
there perlusps aucvessfully, perhaps hot, and progressive and democratio education
depends in this country, deal of criticism of that poor our road to the East, must have boen cut measures that have been carried for the as they had done it, there were, sections Administration of mine, I would like off if all the troops had been taken away last fifty years(cheers)the English and factions and reactions, and, worst the side shows. Bulgaria would not Bill of Mr. Fisher and the Scottish Bill of all, doctrinaires, that wanted to harp first thing we did was to reinforce have fallen Turkey would not have of Mr. Munro. You look at those two back to the old controversice, as if nothing men of political experievice whom you fallen
Austria
Fea
when she found Bills. I tell they are going
you
cave had happened. Look at the appeal which to leave have in every Administration, the back door had been shattered by the a mark in the history of Britain.
They Cromwell constantly made to
to them, Ho DA This is Parliamentary country, and Allied troops. She was all right
ight as long are going to give equal *changed to
get on. Let us get away from you must have men who understand the as she was facing Italy alone, with great the children of those who can these things and let us advance.
We reinforced Parliatoentary systol.
Alpine mountains behind to help her, not sufford, team as the children of thedo
on educa would not, did not; and men of political experienos by including, but when she saw hundreds of miles of
the result?
lost for wing men Whose experience was purely in busi Coor opened behind her, Austrin said. who have got money to spend. There is not let us repeat that blunder.
affaires
"It is over!
we had dropped the going to b an equal opportunity won through the greatest struggle for good-mixture. That was now experiment, and I claim over today... (Chocds.) Turkanai Rin- brains can as casily got up to the determine, one and all the
Laughter and cheers.)
side-shows, the war would not have bean for all lads-(abeers)so that the lud of human ogres thins, the world has ever the days of with one hearty the loot, let- un it was success. Cheers) We had, for aria fell them Austria fall, and Germany, top, under those mensures, from the the first time, an Imperial War Cabinet said Hare they have all gone, it is lowest rung of the ladder as he could one purpose, and one resolve to see that where you had the representatives of the time we should stop too (aughter) if he belonged to the middle dish or to England le clovated to a condition and wisle Raspire, The gfont Dominions and they are marching as hard as they what is known as the upper class. Equal level stick, as no one has ever son, ber and the great Empire of India all sat can. (Loud cheers.) I need not tell you, opportunities for all children. Those in before (Lond cheers.), round the same table to concert together: about March 21st, how, whar that great two Bills were carrled:by." rosetionary On his leaving the platform, many mom as to the 'mekns of victory. That was'n crisis camo, men were hurriedl nóross the Government.
bors, of the nudismon rushed to shake now experiment, but it is going to last. Channel, how a cable was sent to Prosi- Then there was the agricultural labourer hands with the Prime Minister and How havo bon men worksit! I am on-dent Wilson-1 shall never forget that in the South of England. I do not know others pulled Alm affectionately on the titled to say, something about the men anorning when I sent a cable to 1'resident about Yorkshire, but in the South of shoulder.
a draw. That was the talk that it all it, Bulgaria would not have gone and there that women are not fit for it,ul combinations that looked as firm as ́ doubt, but men who loved their "land her, and even King Ferdinand would Having got this power, & poondi Would you treat that as if it were merely dearly and never doubted the justice of there had been no one to attack him.tions, and for their children, it fitliat kind of way merely to Be
the
a Government, and I don't mind telling effects upon our prostiin Government Franchis
you
in the East.
Le savo port against Turkish: toka
Loud houndon duty to do my bit. defend.
a good
to tell yen one or two things wo
and
gavs.
A
from
tion the
women
the
might to exercise. columns of the evening newspapers the first t
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