The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-01-27
ENGLAND'S THE .
GREATEST ARMY
LLoYo-GEoRGE ASSERTS IT WILL
BE BEST EQUIPPED FORCE.
AaNEW BRITAIN IS DtVtt0PED
M
Minister of Munitions Declares Indus
trial Resources Of Nation Haye
improved and Predicts Victofy ~
For the Allies.

. London, Jan. 25.-Few persons will
argue over the statement that the out.
standing figure of the War in Great
Britain is David Lloyd-George, minis
ter of munitions. In an interview he
spoke in part as follows:
Whole Weight in War.
England is preparing to put its
whole weight into the war and Ger.
many Will feel 1t in very short time.
1t is an effort such as England has
never made before-a truly prodigious
effort. In the days before the war
she had the greatest fleet in the world,
but now she has one of the greatest
armies; and in a very short time it
will be about the best equipped army
, in the world. ....
But that is not all! A new Britain
is now being developed-a new indus
trial Britain. Under the pressure of
war we are improving and quickening
our industrial resources to an extent
which would have been impossible but
for the demands of this conflict"
Let me give you an example," said
the munitions minister. In the first
place, we have introduced scores Of
millions worth of automatic ma
chinery, which will have an enormous
effect upon our industries when the
war is over. In addition to that, we
are adding to our already great indus
trial army of skilled workers, and shall
need them in the future to replace
the ravages of war in this country.
Therefore, so far from being the
exhausted Britisher in everything that
constitutes real and true wealth, we
shall be a better organized, better
equipped, better trained and, what is
more important, perhaps a better dis
ciplined nation. In fact, we shall in
deed be national, and not a congeries
of conflicting interests"
In spite of Lloyd.George's firm conf
dence in victory for the allies, he was
asked what he prognosticated If they
were defeated.
If the military class of Germany
should win," he said with great vehe-
mence, the triumph will be perma-
nent-make no mistake. We should
witness the triumph of an ideal-per-
nicious ideal, of course--but potent
one. 1t is Just. the old idea of organ.
lied force which has been the basis
Of all military empires"
The Germany of quiet, pacific devel-
opment. the Germany that was con-
corning herself with improvement in
the condition Of her people, the Ger
many that was increasing her demo-
cratic vote by millions at each sue.
cessive election, would vanish from
the sight of this generation, and in
its place what would we see?
We would see a Germany of tri-
umphant warriors seeking whom it
could devour, looking out for fresh
spheres-or shall l say fresh hemi-
spheres-to conquer"
Gives Warning to America.
IF we overthrow German militar-
ism now" he said, it will be because
our command Of the sea has given us
time to organize and so make good
our unpreparedness. You have only
to imagine what would have happened
If command of the seas had not been
ours, or If it had been wrested from
us. We should have been overrun as
easily as the Balkan peninsula within
three months, mind-of the declara-
tion of war
London would have fallen as quick
ly as Belgrade. France would have
made gallant resistance, as would
Russia. but the armies on the north
and eastern frontiers of France could
have been turned by descents on her
south and west coasts.
IL Germany were to win the war.
Europe would be hopeless. Let us
never forget that indisputable fact.
Russia and France would not be per-
mitted to build up great armies to de-
fend their frontiers and command of
the sea would be taken from Great
What about the Monroe doctrine?"
inquired.
Il cannot help wondering. replied
Lloyd-George, with a mischievous
twinkle in his eye, IF in that event It
would fare better than the British
Ceet."