The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
KAISER'S OFFER
IS HANDED BACK
lOyd-GeOrge Tells Germany TO
Define Terms.
PREPARATION MUST Be PART
British Premier Delivers Reply to
Bethmann HoIlweg's Proposal.
Terms on Which Entente Will End
War viii Go to Teutons at Once,
French Premier Announces

lSFnS on winch Entente VIII Emo
War VIII Go to Teutons at Once,
French Premier Announces.
London, Dec. 20.-"Ten us your
terms!
Give us guarantees for the peace
of Europe from the swashbuckling of
Prussian militarism-guarantee surer
than those you have broken.
Then, and~pot until them, will the
allies treat with you with regard to
ending the war;"
Reduced to its sum and substance,
that 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 thought-the premier
set them down thus:
Without PREPARATION 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 ringing note of bitter
irony he added:
"All the outrages on land and sea
! cannot be 1iQuidated by 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 house thronged to it's 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.
1t was not a fat-footed, 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, scornfu1, al
most contemptuous rejection of the
! central powers proffer as it now
stands. For this proffer in it's pres
ent shape, is a 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 Aristile 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 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 a 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, Dec. 20.-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-
nier 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 eyery 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.