10 APRIL 1915, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George has written a letter to Friday's papers

in which he indignantly repudiates the monstrous accusation brought against him by Mr. Keir Hardie. Speaking at Norwich, Mr. Heir Hardie declared that workers who were putting in eighty-four hours a week had been "maligned and insulted, and the lying word—on the authority of Mr. Lloyd George—bad gone round the world that the British working classes were a set of drunken wasters." Mr. Lloyd George has, of course, an easy task to show that not only did be never say anything of the kind, but that he was most careful to guard himself against misinterpretation, and used words which showed clearly that he did not mean to arraign a whole class, but only a minority.