Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-11
Declares Its UtteranCeS Were
Meant to Defeat Volunteer
ing and That It Attacked
British King,
RUNCIMAN ADVOCATES
WAR ON GERMAN TRADE
American Rivalry Of English
Commerce Is Mentioned
During Debate in Commons
but Speaker Is Rebuked,

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| London, Jan. 10 Ol;25 y. l--
The last han hour of the session was
| devoted to n discussion of Mr.. Lloyd
| Georges suppression of the Glasgow
labor newspaper Forward. Mr.. Lloyd
George quoted extracts from the pa
per beginning in July Some Of them
contained offensive references TO the
king: others declared that the war
had been engineered by capitalists
merely to increase their profits,
| en the day that he visited Glasgow,
, the paper contained an attack on the
Derby recruiting scheme. That, the
minister declared, was zone OF the
most lnsldious appeals to the working
classes not TO enlist which ! ever
read
No Suppression of Free Speech.
There Is no Intention continued
Mr.. Lloyd-Georgc. "of supprossing
free speech and 1t * childish to alg-
gest that the paper was suppressed be-
cause a minister's vanity was offend
ed. This paper for months had been
trying to stir up disaffcction In n dis
trict more important for the equip
ment of the army and navy than any
other In the kingdom. The paper wns
extraordinarily clever and, therefore,
the more dangerous. lts account OF
lmy meeting was fabrication from
beginning to end"
Several members characterized the
incident as unfortunate. The discus.
sion was stil under way when the
house adjourned
| Premier Asquith announced that he
viii allow Two days for debate on the
second reading of the compulslon bill,
beginning tomorrow.
Declares Wnr on German Trade.
Walter Runciman. president of the
board Of trade, won tremendous APP
,plausc from the house of commons to-
nifht with a speech in which he de-
clarcd that the entente allies must
take steps to see that Germany IL un-
able to carry on a trade war against
them after peace Is signed.
There are signs" he said, that at
; least Germany is beginning TO feel the
economic pressure of our blockade.
Her food supplies are becoming de-
pletcd. while ours are increasing. Al
though exports have fallen ana our
imports have risen there Is no doubt
that the economic strength OF Great
Britain is 80 well founded that we can
stand the strain far better thnn the
lcentral powers.
Bread riots in Berlin and in near
ly every other big German city do not
occur without good reasons.
1--WE can stand The strain longer
/ than Germany" continued Mr. Run
ciman 'and if we husband our re-
sources, the disaster that will fall
upon her will be almost irreparable.
| We must make 1t clear, however, that
when peace comes we win moi permit
1.-THE outbreak of the economic war
which Germany would wage against
ourselves and our allies
Discussing the question Of free
trade within the British empire, Mr.
Runciman remarked that the domin
ions Of Great Britain were not likely |
to alter their methods or their atti- I
|tudc toward the mother country.
He declared that the British em-
pire would recuperate after the war;
faster than any other country
VIII Assist Allies.
Then it will be our duty he ad- |
dod, to aid as far as we can, France, /
Russia, Italy and our other allies. II
would even add Germany at the bot
tom of the list. for no man would !
wish to see q period Of prolonged pov-
erty in Germany.
But we have the right to demand !
that In the recuperatlon Of Germany
nothing be done which viii MAKE IT.
ally France. Russia or Great Britain
suffer.
Moreover, am not prepared to
wait for the end of the war to take
steps to deal with this matter
British traders despite the haudi
cap Of the war have worked wonders
in trade development We have COM
pletely broken down the German mo
nopolies in optical glass, dyes. eleeiri-
cal apparatus and certain chemicals
and these monopolies viii not again
he renewed"
To Cripple German Trade.
A resolution was adopted that with
a view to increasing the power Of the
allies IN the prosecution Of the war.
his majesty's government should enter
into immediate consultation with the II
OF the domains. in order
with their aid. to direct the whole }
economic strength strength Of the !
empire. in cooperation with the allies {
against the enemy q
United States Mentioned.
I'm the course Of the debate. there
were some references To the danger of I
with the United States, {
which one member declared would be {
a more formidable competitor after 7