Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-20
England's Premier Makes Fighting Speech in Ans.
 wer to Criticism
ASQUITH HEADER
 OF OPPOSITION
U-B0at Menace and Lack of Unity Only Two Things Ever Seriously Threatening Allied
 Supremacy.

London, Nov. 19.-Premier Lloyd George defended himself in the com mons this afternoon against the first serious attack his administration has raced and, so far as the commons is concerned, his defense seemed highly successful. The prime minister's ad. mirers called it triumph.
 The attack was forced upon two points, the character of the war coun. Gil, which the premier announced in Paris and the condemnation of the allies past strategy, which he pro. nouncea in his Paris speech.
 Asquith Represents Opposition. Ex-Premier Asquith was spokes. man for the opposition. His speech was not in the tone of an attack, but "a sharp criticism of the new plan for allied control of the war, and a vindi- cation of his own government, for which he remarked that he himself and the present premier had each had his particular share of responsibility. It was keyed in a much milder strain than the first hostile outburst from the newspapers and sections of Lib eral and Conservatives parties which greeted the premier on his return home.
 Fighting Reply.
 The Welch leaders reply was a characteristic fighting speech of the type. which has made him famous. There was no thought of retraction for anything he had said or done, no hint of an apologetic strain which some expected, for what had been called his Paris indiscretion." There were some passages which would have made old-school parliamentarians steepad in Gladstonian traditions. of stately courtesy, vince, as when he said, "The attacks made him feel as if he were crossing the channel in a storm on small destroyer" but MT. Lloyd George always brings something of the touch of the stump speaker to the commons and this gave him a stronger appeal to the greater audi .ence outside.
 Sentences That Stabbed.
 The entire cabinet sat beside him on the front bench, and packed, sil- ent house of cQmmoners, peers and others fortunate enough to obetain gallery seats bent forward for ev- cry word. The man whose mantle he had assumed faced him across the space of few feet, with gilded mace between them. Altho they ad- dressed each other deferentially as "My honorable friend" sentences pass led, which to those who know recent history seemed to stab.
 Unity the Only Thing.
 "If we eat together" Premier Lloyd George said, "I have no fear of what will happen. I see anxiety on the horizon and have never concealed them. It is better to tell the people what is going on, but l see no anxie. ties that modify my conviction that there are only two things that could defeat us-there was the submarine menace-if that had wrenched from us the freedom of the seas then, in deed, our hopes would be shattered But now of the submarines I have no fear. We are on it's track and am glad to tell the house that on Saturday we destroyed five of them-five o1 these pests of the seas.
 "What is the other? Lack of unity the only thing" .,,
 "I support every scheme that will help on the road to victory and that will bring peace and bring healing to a world that is bleeding"