Mr. Lloyd George made a lengthy speech on Thursday week
regarding man-power and war aims, on the motion for the adjourn- ment of the House till January 14th. He spoke hopefully of the progress made in the shipyards, and said that the Shipping Con- troller by good management had imported this year only six per cent. lees, measured in tonnage, though he had twenty per cent. less shipping than there was last year. If the Allies had failed to obtain a military decision this year, as they had hoped, the failure was due to Russia, whose Army, though never before so well equipped, would not fight. We had won very great victories in France and Flanders, and the capture of Baghdad and Jerusalem had added more to the piestige of the British Army than almost any other event of the war. He admitted that these were only "side-shows," but the British Empire owed a good deal to "side-shows," such as the conquest of Canada in-the -Seven Years' War. He ranked the establishment of the International Council at Versailles,. "where for the first time we have had provided the machinery of the League of Nations," as another hided() event of the year, and paid a very high tribute to General Sir Henry Wilson.
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