12 JULY 1913, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George on Saturday last, at a garden party

held under the auspices of the West Islington Liberal and Radical Association, replied to Lord Lansdowne's latest speech. Lord Lansdowne, he said, had proposed that public credit and public money should be used to buy what the landlords thought fit to part with. But peasant proprietorship was unsuitable to this country, and in any case before a great scheme of land purchase was arrived at, the whole of the conditions of land tenure would have to be considered. The time was not ripe for purchase, but when that time arrived careful attention must be given to the question of reversion to the State.