Concluding this speech in Welsh, Mr. Lloyd George said:  “War is a time of sacrifice and of service.  Some can render one service, some another, some here and some there.  Some can render great assistance, others but little.  There is not one who cannot help in some measure, whether it be only by enduring cheerfully his share of the discomfort.  In the old Welsh legend there is a story of a man who was given a series of what appeared to be impossible tasks to perform ere he could reach the desires of his heart.  Among other things he had to do was to recover every grain of seed that had been sown in a large field and bring it all in without one missing by sunset.  He came to an anthill and won all the hearts and enlisted the sympathies of the industrious little people.  They spread over the field, and before sundown the seed was all in except one, and as the sun was setting over the western skies a lame ant hobbled along with that grain also.  Some of us have youth and vigor and suppleness of limb; some of us are crippled with years or infirmities, and we are at best but little ants.  But we can all limp along with some share of our country’s burden, and thus help her in this terrible hour to win the desire of her heart.” [Loud cheers.]

Mr. Lloyd George and his party returned after the meeting to Llandudno, where today he will inspect the First Brigade of the Welsh Army Corps.

BRITAIN’S MUNITIONS COMMITTEE

LONDON, April 14.—­The Times says this morning:

An important step has at last been taken by the Government toward the solution of the supreme problem of the moment—­the organization of the national output of munitions of war.  A strong committee has been appointed, with full power to deal with the question.  It is to be representative of not merely one department but of the Treasury, Admiralty, War Office, and Board of Trade; in short, of the whole Government, with all its resources and authority.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to be Chairman, and the first meeting will be held today.

The work before the committee is nothing less than the organization of the whole resources of the nation for the production of materials of war.  Hitherto, in spite of many warnings and some half-hearted attempts at organization, there has been no central, co-ordinated authority.

It is an open secret that it was during Lloyd George’s visit to France at the beginning of the year that he first appreciated the scientific organization of labor which our Allies had already achieved.  Not content with utilizing and extending the existing armament plant, the French have long since diverted several temporarily irrelevant industries to the main business of waging war.

With reference to the drink problem The Times says:

While the Government is apparently considering the expropriation of all the licensed houses in the kingdom, this far-reaching proposal has not at present gone beyond the stage of inquiry and consultation, and it is tolerably certain that it will go no farther unless it is assured of no serious opposition in the country.