The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-10
Premier Voices Allies Stern
Determination to Eman-
cipate Europe
BELIEVES TIDE OF
WAR NEAR IT'S TURN
it, Balfour Dcclares-SeveralN Notable
Addresses Made at the Lord Mayor s
Banquet Last Evening.

LONDON, Nov 1O.-''We are right
and we are sure to win, Premier AS
quith declared last night, speaking at
the banquet given in the Guild hall in
celebration of the Inauguration of Sir
Charles Cheers Wakefield as lord MAYOR
of London.
I'VE shall not falter nor pause, II
said the prime minister. "until we
have secured for the smaller states of
Europe their charter Of independence
and for Europe itself final emancipa-
ton from reign of force.
Mr.. Asauith said Lord Kitchener had
gone to. the northeast to look over the
ground at close quarters and would
shortly return.
That the tide of the enemy = success
es had reached its limit and that the
ebb was at hand was asserted by the
First Lord of the Admiralty, Arthur T.
Balfour. Other speakers were the
French ambassador, Paul Cambon; the
secretary for home affairs, Sir John A.
Simon; the lord chief justice, Baron
| Reading, and the attorney general, Sir
Frederick F. Smith.
The attorney general spoke of the
| American note and said it contained
| legal contentious which he hoped the
/
diet
One difference between the function
tonight and those of other years was
| to be observed in the eurtailment of
| the customary sumptuous menu, one
more appropriate to war economy TAX
! ing its place. Many of the guests
were in military uniform.
! Premier Asquith. his wife and daugll-
ter were cheered when they entered the
| hall and cheers were also given for the
| Serbian minister. the French and Ital-
| ian ambassadors and the Russian Grand
Duke Michael. The high commissioners
Of New Zealand, Hon. William Thomas
Mackenzie, brought his son. who was
blinded while serving in the Darda-
nelles, and the young soldier received an
| ovation. The Earl of Derby, director
Of recruiting, was warmly received, as
was the Belgian minister.
/ When the toast. FsThe King was
given the assembly rose aud sang tht
national anthem, something never done
before at lord mayors banquet.
Sir John A. Simon, secretary for
home affairs, responding to the toast
Our Allies, said that the alliance
would become stronger with the du
ration of the war
Paul Cambon, the French ambassa
dor, said: Although the number o.
our enemies may have increased sine,
last year, the number of our friend
has been augmented. l am happy t
see our Italian colleagues
Describing the war, he said: "Ol
| the one side are tranquil courage, faitl
in an ideal of justice and liberty an,
| the will to employ only legitimat
| means of defense. On the other
thoughts of lucre, forgetfulness of al
the principles of humanity, the lie
| struction of an open town, the takin
/ of innocent lives, n sort of pervers
4 JOY in the accomplishment of evil, an
J plan pursued with childish disregar
: Of seruple, to dominate the world b
terror.
He made reference to the executio
of Miss Edith Cavell. saying: "Quit
recently we saw a German military trt
. bunal sentence a noble woman to deaf
, for the crime of generosity and a Ger
man officer indulge. in the pleasure
l. though not compelled to do so, of e1
ecuting the sentence himself by murder
- ing this defenseless vietim.'
q The ambassador concluded: "Whe
the hour strikes for the enemy to rea
ize that all his schmes for world don
I ination have broken down, we shall Sc
i him prey to a moral depression whic