14 DECEMBER 1918, Page 2

Mr. Asquith. at Lincoln on Monday defined to an audience

of women his idea of "a clean peace," which could be made only by men who regarded themselves "as trustees for the whole future of the civilized world." Women must now work for a new order of society, with full and free access to opportunities intellectual, moral, social, and material. At a later meeting of electors Mr. Asquith twitted Mr. Lloyd George for two egregious omissions from his dark picture of the 1916 war situation. He had forgotten Jutland, which broke German sea-power irreparably, and he had forgotten that Sir Douglas Haig in that year recovered a large tract of French territory and enabled the French to hold and save Verdun. Such an attitude of mind was "paltry and ungracious."