1 JUNE 1918, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George on Friday week received the freedom of

the city of Edinburgh ; and the speech in which he acknowledged the honour expressed his firm confidence in the victory of the Allies, and his equally firm belief that we cannot have an honourable peace without victory. The number of those who thought otherwise, he said, was smaller now than a year ago. With regard to the military situation, America, in spite of all her exertions, had so far supplied only a fifth of the force which Germany had gained by the collapse of Russia ; but the submarine attack had ceased to be a peril, and was now only a menace. The Allied Navies had sunk more sub- marines this year than Germany had built, and the Allies were building merchant ships faster than the Germans could sink them.