The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-12-22
British Premier Delivers Reply TO
Bethmann HoIIWcg's Proposal.
Terms on Which Entente Will End
War Will Go to Teutons at Once,
French Premier Announces.

Indt is the answer OF Great britain
and her allies to the central powers
proposal to enter into negotiations
for peace. 1t was given by Lloyd
George in the house of commons.
AS for the allies terms-the only
terms on which they will give peace
negotiations a thought-the premier
set them down thus:
Without reparation peace is i'm
possible. The allies insist that the
only end of the war must be complete
guarantee against Prussian militarism
disturbing the peace of Europe"
And with a ringing note of bitter
irony he added:
"All the outrages on land and sea
cannot be liquidated by a few pious
phrases about humanity"
At the pinnacle of his political ca
reer, in his debut before the house of
parliament as premier and virtual war
dictator of Great Britain LlOyd-George
delivered his lOng-expected address
before a house thronged to its capac-
ity and amid deep, almost reverential
silence which was however, broken re-
peatedly by thunderous cheering.
Answer of Allies Same.
The substance of his declaration, he
announced, would be sent to Germany
within few days. 1t was not only
England's answer, the prime minister
emphasized. 1t was England's clear
and definite support to the. identical
statements already given by Russia
and France.
The premier said that to avoid the
blunder of Roumania the entente had
decided to recognize the agents of
Venizelos in Greece.
Not Defiant Peace Rejection.
It was not flaf-foofed, defiant re-
lection of peace, this remarkable
speech by England's strongest man"
which the world had waited breath
lessly for eight anxious days.
1t was an unqualified, scornful, al
most contemptuous rejection of the
central powers proffer as it now
stands. For this proffer in it's pres
ent shape, is moose, with the ropes
end in Germany's hands"-thus Lloyd
George described it-and the allies
''do not propose to put their heads in
to it,
Newspaper presses were still roll
ing off extra editions containing the
premier'S Speech-a new edition for
each succeeding paragraph-when the
cables brought from Paris the news
that Aristide BRAND, the French
premier, had announced in the senate
that the entente would send joint re-
ply to the central powers at once,
making it known that cit is impossible
to take their request for peace seri-
ously."
Earlier in the afternoon word had
come from Petrograd that the council
of the Russian empire had decided
unanimously to favor a categorical re-
fusal of the allies to enter peace ne
gotiations with Germany
People in Great Excitement.
The people of the British Isles
throughout the day were in a state
of excitement unequalled in decades,
far more intense even than that of
the momentous days of the wars out
break.
The premier's speech was master
ly exposition of Lloyd's Georges re-
markable versatility. Orator, states
man, diplomat and parliamentarian,
the highest definition of each spoke
out of every sentence. But more con-
spicuous, perhaps, than all these was
Lloyd-George, the democrat, the man
of the people.
BRAND Repeats Defiance.
PARIS, FRANCE = While Premier
David Lloyd-George was making plain
to Great Britain in the house of COM
mons that there could be no peace for
Europe without adequate reparation
for the past and adequate security
for the future, Aristide BRAND, pre-
mier of France, appeared before the
senate and repeated afresh the uncon-
querable determination of his country
to reject the German proposals in
their present form.
THAT the note is a gross trap, pre-
pared by Germany for the unwary, is
evident to every one" NJ BRAND
said. He added that the reply would
be dispatched Immediately, tomorrow.
he said, although it is believed that he
used the term in its idiomatic sense
of meaning very SOON" '
Russia Refuses to Enter.
PETROGRAD = The council of
the empire declared unanimously in
favor of categorical refusal of the
Germany
No Bases Offered, Sonnino.
ROME. ITALY - Foreign Minister