27 OCTOBER 1917, Page 3

Sir Edward Carson in a vigorous and manly speech at

Portsmouth on Wednesday declared that Great Britain had received no offer of peace, and that she would not make peace without the consent of the Dominions and the full approval of the Allies. " We shall have no betrayal. In this war wo have pooled not merely our material and our men but our honour." Sir Edward Carson rebuked the Pacificists who suggested that the signature of the Rohrer to a paper peace, like an Act of Parliament, would settle everything. We wish that he had gone a little further and, like President Wilson, plainly said that there could be no peaoo with the Hohenzollern.