On Wednesday the Prime Minister addressed his constituents at Ladybank.
After a moving eulogium of Lord Kitchener and his services to the nation, Mr. Asquith spoke in glowing terms of the Russian advance and of the heroic efforts of the French Army at Verdun. He dwelt on the completeness of the co-operation among the Allies, and especially on the perfection of the mutual under- standing between us and the French military authorities on the Western Front. In this context the Prime Minister mentioned, as did Mr. Boner Law at the opening of the Commercial Conference in Paris, that the French at Verdun knew from the first that Sir Douglas Haig was ready and eager to help them in any way desired. That the French have not found it necessary to ask for the aid of their British comrades in arms is, we may add, the best possible proof that we need have no fear about their power to deal adequately with the situation at Verdun.
