The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-28
GREAT BR|TA|N'S
WAR AIMS STATED
PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE MAKES
CONCRETE STATEMENT IN
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
HUNS MUST PAY FOR HAVOC
Complete Restoration of Territory
Now Held Is Another Considera-
tion.-England Not Seeking
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

London, Dec. 21-In the midst Of
the peace pourparlers that are in prog
ress between the representatives of the
Teutonic allies and the Bolsheviki gov
eminent in Russia, the war aims OF
Great Britain-and doubtless of all her
allies-have been concretely set forth
in the house of commons by David
LLOYD George, the British prime min
lister.
The complete restoration of terri
tory now in the hands of the enemy
and compensation for the havoc they
have wrought is the price that will be
demanded for the laying down of arms
and the bringing about of peace.
Great Britain did not seek territor-
ial ACKNOWLEDGMENT for herself or for
any of her allies when she entered the
war, Mr.. Lloyd George said, but en-
tered into the hostilities merely for
the sake of her honor. AS to Ger
many's colonies, all of which are now
in the hands of the entente, Mr.. Lloyd
George said, their disposition must
be determined at the peace congress.
Jerusalem, however, the premier de-
clared, would never be restored to the
Turks.
The statement of the prime minister
came almost simultaneously with a
report that the Teutonic allies in
tended to make peace proposals to the
entente, and that Russia had been re-
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endeavoring to sound her former al
lies in arms as to their requirements
for a cessation of hostilities.
Strife in Russia Increases.
Meanwhile the civil warfare in Rus
STA apparently is increasing in inten-
sity. Cossacks under General DutOff
are reported to have captured Tchelia-
hinsk the junction point on the trans
Siberian railway, 125 miles west of
the Siberian frontier, through which
supplies from the east for European
Russia must pass, and fighting con-
tinues in Odessa, in the Ukraine and
around Astrakhan, but with the re-
suits uncertain, owing to conflicting |
reports.
The Bolsheviki government is re-
ported to have demanded that the
chief governing body in the Ukraine
make known Immediately whether the
Ukrainian troops will cease assisting
General Kaledines' Cossacks and dis
Bolsheviki troops. If the re-
ply of the Ukrainians is not favorable
it is announced that the Bolsheviki
government will declare war on them.
An unofficial report is to the eff
feet that Grand Duke Nicholas. the
former Russian general, whose mas
terful retreat from the Carpathians
and later successful operations
against the Turks in the Caucasus ,
.egion stamped him as one of the
yreat commanders of the war, has ,
'ormed a great army in the Caucasus :
'egion. 6
Hard fighting continues between the =
Italians and the AustrO-Germans be- +
ween the Brenta and Piave rivers in
northern italy, but apparently the Ital- \
ans have bsen holding their own since 6
he enemy's thrust on Tuesday re- q
ulted in the capture of positions :
lround Monte Asolone. The Italians, i
according to the Berlin official COM r
have delivered fierce T
against the sectors in {
he region in the hands of the Teu- +
ons but have been repulsed, while s
he Rome war office says that several i
ttempts by the enemy to advance
heir lines on the Tasson-Col del Orso c
ront and to cross the Piave river a
ortheast of Venice were frustrated. h
Two enemy submarines have been .
INK by French torpedo boat destroy O
RS, off the southern coast. of Italy. il