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IN PEACE AND WAR, PREMIER ON THE NATION'S RESOURCES.

THE HONGKONG DILY

You have to liquidats those arroure and to work to make them up. The devasta. tion of the war has to be made up. There are countries which at one time were about the richest in the world, but whose reserves have been used up. These are Dow waking up, and they open up un limited possibilities for the manufactur Ing energics of the world (Choera.) I have no fear.

It is the supply I am worrying about. There is enough work in sight for many years, and, at the end of that period, prosperity, prosperity which will have rained the standard of living to such an extent that there will be an increase in the demand for the commodities which this country is eminently able to supply (Cheers.)

DECEMBER YO

SINN FRIN ATTACK.

that has been depleted, in the war. When

EXPENDITURE the United States, the greatest manufac

Tomorrow I propose to is

to lay-ill I bave

TWO CONSTABLES SHOL turing country of the world for the first the opportunity--something about expan+ two or three years of the war, and, during ditura I would rather are what I Tya daring attacks on pollos barracks Mr. Lloyd George, who was accompant the last year or so, the very largest in have to say about that until tomorrow in County Meath took place on October ed by Mr. Lloyd George, arrived in the world, is indeed lacking in its cusen-But I would talk now about what a Govi gath, with the remals that one constable Shefeld on October 18th to full threstial commodities, you hare got no reserva zamen's can save Transportation in all was shot dead sad, a sergeant was wound- public engagements; In the afternoon

its branches is one of the greatest, if not hand from one of the barracks a quan

tity of arme 'mad" azurunition was stolea. be repaired the Freedom of the City in

the greatest, aid to our future prosperity abortly after ten o'clock party of armed "the Victoris Hall; he also received an

and well-being. It is the link which ties men, estimated at some twenty strong, address in Welsh from the members of

together our industrial, agricultural, and tacked the barracks at Ballivor. When the men approached the barract: door, the Cambrian Society. In the evening be

bealth improvement policies. We realised Constable agar, who was on duty sa or was the chief guest at the Cutlers' Feast.

during the war more than ever before how derly, went to the door and asked who was there. He was shot dead immediate The gathering at the Cutlers' Feast was

esential transport war to victory. Infy his body falling back in the barrack brilliant one. The great banquetting

peace (baar, bear)-I am not going to nail. The sound of the shooting aroused the other constahlan, and Constables hall was filled to ita utmost capacity. The

say much about it now, as I wish to talk bhanatan and Loonard, who were in, the Master Cutler (Colonel H. K. Stephen

about that somewhere else. During the day room, made a rush, but were over- son, M.P.) presided, and the Premier

war wo affered severely because we were powered. After a stroggie, is is stated, the men in barracks surrendered their occupied the seat on his right. The

20 able to bring up our nerves, and arms to the falders.

They had in all burden of the Prime Minister's speech

now there is a good deki of arrears to about "ave ride and a

* quantity of ame munition Sergeant MacDermot, who was productivity."

be made up if the locomotives and wage in charge, fred several shots from his now in need of repairs ars to be revolver through the door of a zoom, st made useful. This is unquestionably in the invaders, but whether any of them pre-machinery of industry. That is a ques pleta arrangement for the removal of the

were his is not yet known. terfering with the free working of the

There appears to have been a very com- tion of time. Gradually, I think, wo cars were used. It is stated in one so bessed arms and material. Two 'motor I want to invoke the consideration of shall be able to put that right, but it count that after shooting the orderly the all ranks of the trade as to the best way

means more than that. I am not the attacking party shit the day room, dong,

thas shutting in

the police who of coping with this difficulty. Can we man to criticize the railway man

the -room.". "Bergeant. MacDermot soized get our fair share in supplying these gement of this country. I do not believe the dead constable's revolver, and fired demanda Upon the answer to the quee there is an abler management in the several shots from it through door. tion will depend good wages, reasonable world, but the competitive system without the raiders, who were misaks, then went hours, comfortable homes, fair profits central direction leads to hopeless disguns, one reviver, a couple of hundred npstairs, seized five carbines, dewo shot his tribute was a singularly generou Can it be donet, It depends on three or sue, and I thank him for it I think four considerations. The first is peace-location of facilities and the inevitable rounds of ammunition, and souse police this is the Brst time I have had the privi (cheers)-peace abroad, peace at hot waste. It is essential that that should be out and disappeared in their muturcar

pouches and equipment, and then rushed, of attending this noted feast, and Chours) We have established peace with

Let us so that it is a real, it

Germany. gave me a great deal of con- Baturally cern as to what I was to talk about, what one. It depends upon us. It is not the I should say about the subject of the British character to nag, to harry, to toast. Coming up in the train this morn-insult, and to trample on a beaten foo ing I thought for a moment my anxieties who has acknowledged defeat. (Cheers) were relieved on this subject, for I picked As long as Germany conforms to the con- up a newspaper which told me what I ditions we have laid down in the was to talk about laughter)--not only we must give our enemics a fair chance say about it and what I was not say. It existence (cheers in the interests of the great industries of this country. The what the subject was, but what I was to to lead a decent, pesceable, honourable eveg went so far as to choose what

Mr. Lloyd George, who was very hearti- ly received, in responding to the toast of His Majesty's Ministers" said thank you, Lord Stuart of Wortley, for the very warm and cordial terms in which you proposed this toast. Coming from an old political opponent, one who sat oppo site me in the House of Commons for a good many years and one to whom especially I gave a good deal of trouble when be happened to preside over the deliberations of the assembly(laughter)

A TAIE CHANCE: 30 OUR. ENEMIES..

corrected.

THE REBOURCES OF THE COUNTRY.

Transportation can do more than that It can assist in the development of neglected and backward districts. The fall resources of this counin bavo not You have only to yet been developed. look at the way we have let down gri- saltural areas, the foeding grounds of

I should use (laaghter) and paverybody, not merely of Germany but of population has gone down by a hundred

in the darknes

were in

It is stated that the raiders had the barracks surrounded, so that nons of the police could escape. The whole afair was aver in five minutes. In order to prevent hows being given of the attack they had cut the telegraph wires. Ballivor is a mall village in West Meath, some three mice from the Hill of Down and eight

LEVIA LERO

A: SECOND RAID.

course-(cheersand stick to it right to not pass away with the signature of a can assist is the development of power aired the way to

I

COMPARISON WITH AMERICA

without doors gave

door,

the neccessary

A few minutes latter he heard voices behind a wall and some abouts in front of the baracks, which seemed to indicate that a number of people were gathered "there"""Then several sbota were fred into the barracka--On entering the Hergeant's room" the constable found him shot at bis deal where he had been doing some office work before retiring for the night, He face, near the eye. was bleeding from the right side of the

Almost simaltaneously, with the raid on Britain and the world You cannot have thousand in the course of a generation Ballivor an attack by armed men was ly what phrases I should avoid. In fact, peace unless there is peace all round, and We have to use our transportation system made on Dillon's Bridge palice barracks, it took me in hand like a young beginner condition of perpetual worry of war to assist in the regeneration of the rural which lie some ve miles north of Navan, in the art of public speaking with the fatal to industry and I think, too, to life of this country, (hear, hear) and I

(Cheers.) patronizing air of an expert. Notwith goodwill amongst people.

am trusting that the passage of the Minis thews and three constables were the only in an isolated district. Sergeant Mat standing, with the wilfulness and perver. There will be plenty of trouble here and try of Transport Bill, and especially with occupants. The door had been locked for ity which characterise certain people, I there for some time. You cannot have auch very shie organiser at its head the night, Hearing a knock, one of the am not going to take the advice. You will great convulsion like a great war and Bir Eric Geddes (cheers) will achieve constables went to the door and asked be surprised to hear that for the first time expect the moment it is over for it to the objects which we have in view.

subside immediately. Earthquakes do

what was wanted. A voice outside in- in my life I am going to take my own

Another

question where the Government

and the on- the end. have something which I think fountain pen. There will be rumbles in this country. When we talk about pro- ought to be said by the head off the Gov. There will be murmurings. There will daction there is a limit to which one man.

directions. arament, and said at this moment. be shakings of the earth. There will be can produce without extraneous aid. The propose to say it The war is luckily upheavals bare and there, but the worst man in command of machinery can in- over- We have signed peace with, our

is past. (Cheers turbed

I can see symptoms érease his productive capacity to a degree formidable foes, and it is time we should even in the most

areas of a com-that would-amate our ancestors. settle down earnestly to work. (Cheers.)ing peace, and there will be peace on There is a natural disinclinationi after earth in a short time and you can only

The unpleasant fact with regard to the excitement of the greatest war which build on a foundation of peace.

power in this country is that ya have now the world has ever seen to set ourselves to the monotonous task of peace, but I As long as war was to be made I was yet approached the American standard think the time has come when the nation, only one out of millions who threw every worth your while reading, on coal con- There is a very remarkable report, which of all ranks of sal grades, of all pur-thing he had into it. (Cheers.) Now we servation by a very able, body of men, aharp, engagement thereupon began Buite, should settle down in earnest to have peace let us throw all the best we' and amongst other things they report that between the armed man in the barracks work (Cheers.)

have into that as well. (Cheers.) But we must have peace at home.

the amount of machine pover per man and the raiders without. It lasted about Industry cannot make its arrangements-complicat- what it is to hit ton of America is twice ton minutes, and the police state that it is in this country. The standard about a hundred shots were exchanged, delicate, anxious, speculative--in con-

rates of wages there are higher, and the after, which the raiders withdrew under ditions which disturb confidence. secure production you must have.

living conditions are better. I know it cover of the darkness. Things apparent body wurking, not merely with a will but is rather troublesome to quate in the mid-ly were too bat for the raiders, for they dle of a speech, but one passage from that left four bicycles behind. The barrack with goodwill (Cheer) That is what won the war, and to secure goodwill these report is so important that I am going walls and wiadows bear many marks of must hy, confidence, confidance all round to inflict it upon you. This is what they rifle or revalver shots, and several of the

day: There is little doubt that in the window-panes are broken.... Capital must have confidence

Labour United States of America the average must have confidence. Capital must have parchasing power of the individual is confidence that its enterprise will be fair-

is largely due to the more extensive use more than it is in this country, nod that y remunerated.

of power which increases the individual'a sarning capacity

QUE VAST OPTORTUNITIES,

CONFIDENCE AND GOODWILL.

sveratr

I

WATES POWER BILL.

I do not mean raragant profita Extravagent profite

Well, I should have liked to have said limit production and, Torse, they ac

something about water power, which is the wheels of industry with the sands of

more neglected in this country than in suspicion, mistrust, and hostility.

MORE MOTIVE POWIA, TE

any other country in the word (Hear, means fair legitimate reward for fair The best cure for low ages is more legitimate risk for enterprise, business motive power more from the manufacturear.) Agrest national asset running to waste. National wealth, national splitude, and skill, and Labour must also ers' point of view. The only offset feel confidence that it will share the regainst the increasing cost of labour is which which is productive, wealth: that ward of prosperity. (Hear, hear.)" It more extensive use of motive power. This

produce wealth, and wealth that will must feel confidence that it is not going is the solution of the workmen's problem, and in need of wealth, where you can produce wealth in the districts which to be thrust back into the morass, the and also that of the employer, that is have industries under the most healthy That is a quagmire from which Ave years of war to say, to make the greatest possible use Box matuma Besion we shall be

That may strike you as commonplace, is an essential which should be rabbed in and brought home. It is not merely, that we should work as we work- ed before the war, but if we are to face our dificulties and emerge triumphantly from the troubles of peace as we issued from the greater difficulties of the war, we must work, and more productively, at any rate, than we have ever done before. What is the situation Our burdens are beavier than they ever were; our needs are greater and our standards are higher. (Cheers.) Yes, and our opportunities are vaster. (Chora) That is the situation of the hour. Let me give you the verdict. Before the war on national debt was 645 millions. The National Debt to-day is nearly £8,000,000,000. Owing to the increased charges and cost of living other State and municipal burdens are neces sarily higher; wages are double; hours of labour are curtailed; the standard of living is higher than ever.

I trust that in the course of thing to rejoice over, and it is a thing, have extricated it at the cost of millions of power, and have an increased supply the which is worth preserving. (Hear, hear

di power reduced to the greatest economy You cannot

of supply. That is a lesson, not merely mons & But which will make it possible to

able to carry through the House of Com ZEAL PARTNERSHIP WANTED. not preserve it. by decrees of tri by decisions in labour conflicts.

We must all have a real interest in the for the manufacturer, but for everyone harness this greit power for the purpose the war all visions of semi-hunger; success of the concern.

What we want. Wherever you find four men doing the of re-creating industry in areas that sad. girivation, and want vanished. May they is a real partgership in the great bust work of one it means low wageni need is at the present moment never enter the portals of this country Bess of Great Britain. It must be if this (Cheers.) Wherever you find two men

country, largely

through the toil of those with the aid of machinery doing the work But machine power is not the last word who are skilled, accumulates riches, that of four men it means a better condition There is a power, the meaning of which will have a fair share of comfort, of things. It always leads to more eme only realised in the war, and that is

and higher (Cheers.) That is why

Man power. (Cheers:) (We realised that efforts standard of living..

and the men must get into their minds, men alone are essential to bear the strain. Labour, employer and werkoman— to secure

operation in the service of the country the war has taught. There it a good dashes the stram of which belongs to us all. If you lift the of obsolete machinery which migih ure bearer ofimated

(H007,

again.

PROBLEM ALIORE DA.

But you have got to maintain thos conditions.

You have got to watch

of live (Heat, bear.)

Labone

SEMAK POWIE

There are today 200,000 more man and aty, and joy which those riches: pro PHOyment, better wars facta Vidit was vital to national security, that At

·women engaged in industry than during" must be made on both sides (Cheers.) There is another lesson, which öf war. They are just as essential...

the war.

There are 400,000 women for whom employment has not yet been found Edur or five hundred thousand more hare yet to be demobilized. That is the prob

lem. Heavier burdens than ever; shorter hours; higher wages; a better standard

country up nearer sundine its raye abar won't say that such machinery is to

fully be scrapped in this country

fall on every home. (Cheers,) Isma

from counselling that we should purchase found in

in

ta

by those who

were in charge of the organisation for

ad taken proper care of the people wa opuld have put one million more men into

of living for millions more men and the co-operation of any section of Labour laws and vol63) Applying the Army with men that if we

women.

ditions.

Sway

parta

I can understand the swited it cannot get its own way; in one subjga ba VALUE OF ELMOTRICITI.

the

feld, which would have shortened the with its soberings and its burdens. sumber of unit was appoin Underfeeding, bad feeding, bad

There country. Co-operation-means helping other claim, there is a considerable mense nations. We must preserve our assets,

of That is the problem. Can we at the price of a coccation which would country, and not so far

(Babawed solve it! We can only solve it one way, hem another section throughout the land laughter.) This is one of the lessons we and that is by increasing production. and which would not be to the advant have to learn, and one of the first lessons (Applauss). I know the dread and horrors of the rest of the country. We can we ought to have learned in the quick, in the minds of millions in this country not submit to a section of the community economics, larger work of munitions, in overcrowding unhealthy working omdi lent they be driven back to pre-war con- who would hold all industry up, because cluding that of the greater eficiency and fons, socivo drinking, all contributed secured by converting coal into to the nation's sufferings. The war taught Wages that you had in many trades not on which it has set its heart. To give

power."

tomas tus these lessons of in your area. There is the terror of un-way would be extremely harmful to their 11 don't know whether the claim can power, the strength, the

after car maa Looking employment, with all that it means for a fellow-workmen and the industries of the

vitality, the man, his wife, and children.

be substantiated. Probably, like vozy they of the people. Is is wealth for the fear of pre-war conditions. There in each other. only one way out of it. You must in-

merely underground, such a coal, spze of truth in it, but it may be exagbub the living sets that are above the crease the

What is needed, more than ever is a seated (es, hear.) They claim but ground. (Cheert) And it is not merely increasing the national good understanding between Labour and you can get five times as much power out production. That ไป it is

When brought together they of your ton of coal if it converted question of physical fitness hut of not enough

as well. The best troops that production should be equal to pre

erally

come to an understanding. It into electricity, and that you can save war production; you must increase its the brick wall serben, that fifty-five million tons of 001 in the Wery country came from the best educated areas. That which makes man a bet That is

urgent need of day in bag created the trouble. Let them try to country if you have electric power on this and every country, understand each other's point of view and

tar soldier makes him a better workman. scala in large generating stations. That is why the great measure introduct Cruelly Well, if this is trad, at the chats will incressa. the and

the Minister of Education, Mr. Fisher and the difficulty in

productive These are the

do that b2ational income, and you ca

the

then

A GOOD UNDERSTANDING WANTED

hear.) In matters of this kind

opt"

mental Afness

the first country that solves that problems that work to listen on to eight of present price of coat, put that in Yery spality of the nations will rise to the heights of success, ' pros- highest record that bas ever been made.Herity that it hsa never seen before with consideration for the whole of the tasks in front of me, and we showed what. perity, and honour, which are beyond this (Cheers.) This land, ita calm, courage there is not much that the Government State (cheers) and therefore the Gove this country could achieve when it dung and endurance, whose common sense has can do. In fact, the lets the Government ernment at the present moment are en of class, octional, and partisan, jeal enabled it to overcome so many obstacles does the better. There ismothing more god in passing through an Electric will believe, triumph over this to be regretted than when Capital and Power Bill with a view to reorganising nation. You have to teach II the people, and combined to make one great (Cheers.) Supposing this country the Government has to intervene and operation of all those who are interest in peace as wall as in war, that its pros you a market. (A Voice: "Yea") Whose arbitrate. The less that is done the beted, with a view on a larger scale to perity, and, prestige are in their keeping, market You have the arrears of five ter, and the more employers and work develop electrical power throughout the in their hands, their hearts, and that the years to get back. All the great manu men see things together, the better it is land for industrial purposes, as well as road of national prosperity is still the facturing countries of Europe are con- in the interests of everybody. But there for lighting purposes.

entrating their energies upon material are certain things a Goverment can do.

high road Let us continue to tread it (Continued as foot of next column.) (Loud sheers.)

ducon more than it has ever done, haveLabour cannot understand each other, and landing power and engaging the co, all the time, that this country is there.

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