Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1918 — DECLARES END OF WAR NEAR [ARTICLE]

DECLARES END OF WAR NEAR

SAYS PEACE ALLIES WILL ESTABLISH WILL PRECLUDE RENEWAL OF CONFLICT. Neath, Wales, Aug. 9.—Premier Lloyd George, who came here to attend the Welsh National Eisteddfod, in receiving the freedom of Neath today, declared that “the end of the tunnel’’ through which the allies had been traveling for four years was getting nearer. Mr. Lloyd George made no apology to any man, he said, for any part he had played during the war. He added: “And I propose to fight on to the end.” Some people had complained, continued the Premier, that he was too optimistic in the view to took of things. He insisted: “I don’t think I am. I was not one of those who thought it would soon be over—never. “I thought it a long job and a terrible job, but I have always been confident we would get throught, for I knew we were fighting for the right and that the God of righteousness would see us through.” The Premier appealed to his countrymen to put all the might of the empire into the fight, continuing: “We shall be through the tunnel into the broad daylight of God’s sun again/ in a land of peace, reil peace, without apprehension of sinister, dark, plotting forces to renew the slaughter. No, never again. “That is why I am appealing to my countrymen. Now we have confidence. We have good news. The annihilated army hit back yesterday morning at dawn. “If anybody had told Ludendorff on March 22 that up to the month of August he would be trying to get guns away from the advancing French and British armies—well, I don’t know German, and therefore, I cannot tell what his answer would have been, but I believe it would have been in very strong langmage indeed. “In that victory which will come for the alliance there will be no tearing up or greed; yea, and no vengeance* on this path which we pursue with a holy purpose of re-establish-ing right and peace en earth.” As he was leaving London, for Neath, Lloyd George expressed great ’ satisfaction with the news from the front, remarking: “We are smashing through.”