Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-13
.LLOYDCEORCE SEES FUTURE
 IN STAFF OF
 ALLIED CAUSE
British Premier Gives Reasons For the Sudden Formation of the Allied General Staff and Explains Its Delay.
CBy Review Leased Wire.)

| PARIS. Nov. 12.-Premier Lloyd George, alluding to a centralized di rection of the allied efforts, ir his speech at a lunchec;. in his honor here today. said:
 Unfortunately We did not have time to consult the United States or Rus sia before creating this council The Italian disaster necessitated action without delay
 But to assure tie complete success Of this great experiment. which believe is essential to victory of our cause, it will be necessary that all our great allies be represented in the deliberations"
 Explains Delay.
 MT. Lloyd-George developed at con siderable length the reasons for not taking the step earlier. He referred to 'timidities and susceptibilitles'' when it came to treating questions on any front not commanded by gener- als taking part in the inter-allied con sultations. The allies had committed a great fault be said, in not adequately assisting Serbia in holding her lines. with the result that the central em- pires broke the blockade and procured men and supplies from the east, with out which Germany doubtless would have been unable to maintain the forces of her armies.
 "WlIy was this unbelievable fault committed?" asked the premier "The reply is simple It was because no one in particular was charged with guarding the Balkan gate. France and England were absorbed by other prob lens in other regions. Italy thought only of the Carso, Russia was mount ing guard over a frontier of a thou sand miles and even, without that, she could not have passed through to have helped Serbia, because Rumania was neutral.
 Sent Too Late.
 'It is true that we sent troops to Saloniki to succor Serbia, but, as al ways, they were sent too late Half the men who fell in the vain effort to pierce the western front in Septem- Der that year would have saved Ser bia. saved the Balkans and completed the blockade of Germany"
 After reviewing the Italian campaign the premier said:
 ''As far as I am concerned I had arrived at the conclusion that if noth- ing was changed I could no longer ac- cept the responsibility for the direc- tion of a war condemned to disaster from lack of unity. Italy's misfortune may still save the alliance, because without it l do not think that even today we would have created a verit- able superior council.
 National and professional tradi- tions, questions of prestige and sus- capabilities all cospired to render our best decisions vain. No one in par ticular bore the blame. The guilt was in the natural difficulty of obtaining of so many nations of so many indi- vidual organizations that they should amalgemate all their individual par 'ticularities to act together as if they were but one people.
 Unity Seems Assured.
 Now that We have established this council it is for us to see that the unity it represents be a fact and not an appearance
 "The war has been prolonged by par ticularism. It will be shortened by solidarity. If the effort to organize our united action becomes a reality have no doubt as to the issue of the war. The weight of men and material and of moral factors in every sense of the word is on our side
 'I say it, no matter what may hap pen to Russia or in Russia. A revoin- tionary Russia can never be anything but menace to Hohenzollernism. But even if We are obliged to despair of Russian, my faith in the final triumph of the cause of the allies remains un- shakable."