Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-23
Early Peace Not in Sight,
Say British Leaders;
Germany Must Be
Crushed.
ARMED TRUCE TERRIBLE
Would Mean Butchery Of
Worst Kind; Entente
in Ascendancy.

LONDON. oct. 22.-Premier Lloyd
George and the chancellor of the
exchcouer. Andrew Bonar Law, were
the principal speakers at an imposing
demonstration In Albert hall this af
ternoon TO inaugurate the autumn
Campaign for national economy.
Tho premier declared that the mag
Iitude of the enthusiastic gathering
In the fourth year OF the war was the
best proof of the determination of this
country to prosecute the war until vic
tory was achieved. The cost of the
war was gigantic. II was heavy today
and would be heavy tomorrow.
Tie valor of Great Britain would
be enormously enhanced by the quick
ening inspiration of Il righteous war.
Another solacing fact was that The gl-
gantic debt would be n debt which
Britain owe to themselves as Great
Britain was borrowing daily from her
children. After drawing "a comparison
between the eXtr@vagances of war
time and peace time, and making
plea Tor economy, the premier said:
Cannot See Peace.
The way to shorten the war is to
prepare as If the struggle were going
to NO long one. / am not going TO
predict when the end of the war will
comc-uo man IN his sense would pro-
long It one hour II there We're an op-
portunity for n real and lasting peace.
But 1t must be lasting peace. 1t
must not be "A peace which would be
the prelude to a new and more de-
vastating war.
81 have been scanning the horizon
anxiously and cannot see any terms
In sight which would lead to an en-
during peace.
Il feel that the only terms which
are possible now would be terms which
would END in an armed truce. ! viii
say an armed truce ending IN an even
more frightful struggle.
"This war Is terrible beyond all.
| But terrible as II is In Itself. II IS
still more terrible in the possibilities
! which IT has revealed Of new horrors
| on land and sea and in the air.
Another War More Horrible.
II ask those who are presN.' y
should there be any for a prema
ture peace to reflect for a moment
what might happen If we made an
unsatisfactory settlement--all the best
scientific brains in the lands stimu-
lated by national rivGlry, national
! hatred, national hopes devotine their
energies for ten. twenty, thpy years
to magnify the destructive powers
| of these horrible agents. whose power
is only just disclosed We must set
tie this once for ALL"
| Chancellor Bonar Law, referring To
| air raids. declared V was impossi Vie
to prevent thems but Great Britain
would make them as costly as pos
sible. He added:
Germany has carried out a kind of
aerial warfare. which is dctestable. We
would avoid it If we could, but the
enemy is determined upon II. So be
J 1t. Our enemies will find that what
| they gave us will be returned to them
in full measure, pressed down and
running over"
Mr. Bonar Law asserted that for
many months the British air service
has had priority over every other
in arms supply. During the last
month at the front the British had
| dropped eight thousand bombs be
hind the German lines and the Ger
mans had dropped only about one
thousand behind the British lines.
'In one month" he added, Our
airmen In Flanders did damage to the
enemy far exceeding all the damage
they have done to us in all their
| ra Ids" 4"