Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-10-16
CROWDS IN LONDON
GREET LLOYD GEORGE
Winston Churchill to Be in
Charge of the Irish
Debate.
PRESS DISCUSSES MS AroLoGlA
Commentators Make Strenuous Ef-
forts to trnd between
thu Lines.
lBy Associated Press J

LONDON. Oct. l5.-rremicr Lloyd
George returned To London today.
He met with a hearty reception from
crowds ot admirers and had "a long
conference with Winston Churchill
Secretary for the Colonies.
Mr Churchill will be III charge ot
the Irish debate when Parliament;
takes up The matter OF ratification
OF the new Irish Constitutions. and
as the necessity OF securing ratlilca-
tion before December 6 makes this
task wcighty one In connections
with any possible carly appeal TO tn.
country. II is assumed the whole
subject will h. threshed over.
The Iremicr's speech at Mauch.s-
ter Saturday leaves political circles
romrio;"ly al loss To prnpnosticatr
the next political movement; Il Ia
generally supposed there Viii lie an
carly dissolution although this sup
position does not arise from any
thing tho Premier said AT Mauch~s-
ter. hut from general review of
all the factors In the existing silt
uaii"n. and. abov. all, from the con
NlCiiun that the spccchcs OF :h.
Prime Minister aud the Coloniai Sec
rotary. from which 50 much was
expected. have in point Of Fac, left
things just as they we're before ana
HAY" done nothing whatever TO arr
rest the progress OF the revol; In
against the continuance OF Lloyd
| Georges leadership.
II the Prime Minister has an,
| definite plans ho successfully con
ceaied them from his Manchester au-
/ diehce. His sapoleHla. .Rs, InRny de.
sCrihcd his sfea6h has nbtS se VeH 3;u
turn away the sharp edge of cr,ti-
cism lately lcvclrd at his Near East
ern policy. J. l.. Garvln. In the sun
day Observer. penned one OF the most
scntning indictments of that policy
ye, seen. pointing out how. owing to
the existence within the Cabinet OF
two d!amctrically opposed policies.
it had hc.n impossible to pursue a
policy leaning toward Turkey. and
declaring that the government In
fact. had fallen between ,wo stools
Asserting thar the government
had spent between twenty and thii-
ty million pounds sterling In war
preparations unl: To bring Turkey
Lack into Europe I'm n more iirmly
established position than before 1914
he says:
so. all ne wcre supposed 20 uave
won in Ihc Near East in the great
war. not one asset remains. while
'H' iVSS ~ our ill'Ist ItiIte - IN
pnrallclnd in our relations with the
Mosl"m world. To antaEoniZe stimuli
;aneously Russia. Turkey ana all Is
Ian! IL mere madness.
rirSt commentators on the speech
Of Premier Lloyd George In Man
chester yesterday. writing in the
sunday morning papers today. make
strenuous efforts to read between
the l.ncs--to discover what the Pre-
m!er had !n mind as tc hts per-
sonal !ntentions.
Anti-Coalit!onists refuse TO accept
the speech as an answer to the
various charges laid against the gov
crnment %! m.shandlirS affairs Of
state. especially OF the Near East.
The sunday Times declares that
the speech means nothing II not an
early general election. Although the
Premier did not indicate any date FOR
an election. the papers express the
opinion 'knt the present Parliament
which stands proroRuud until No
vcmo.r "a. viii not meet again. ard
that it's dissolution viii be announced
early this week. In that event, the
r'rinieS believes. the elections " i'll he
held early IN November aud the ncw
i'arlia!nt assembled In the course
Of a few months
This view is shared also by the OBJ
/ server. Which secs in the speech an
u"m.staNabie appeal TO the Liberals