The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-30
MUST ATTAIN
 AIMS OF WAR
 BEFORE PEACE

Glasgow, June 30-In discussing the question of peace yesterday Premier LioyAr-George said that if the war should be concluded a single hour be fore the Allied powers reached the end they set out to attain at the beginning of the war, it would be the greatest disaster that ever ibefell mankind.
 Tn my Judgment said the premier, 'this war will come to an end when the Allied powers have reached the end they set out to attain when they ac- cepted the challenge thrown down by Germany to civilization. Then this war ought to come to an end, but if 1t oomes to an end single hour before, 1t wtll be the greatest disaster that ever befeM mankind.
 T hear people say that Germany is ready to give as a satisfactory peace. 2. No doubt you can have peace now at q certain price, for no doubt Germany wants peace, but it is a peace that would gtvey her econQnic and other control over the coun trfes which she has invaded.''
 'sRnzssia will regain her strength with a bound and become mightier end more fornddsable than ever" Mr. Lloyd George continued. Although these distractions had the effect of postponing complete victory. they make victory more sure than ever, more complete than ever, and, what, Is more important, they made surer than ever the quality of victory"
 There were many hearts filled with gloomy anxiety, contemplating the prospect of a peace conference to set tie the future of democracy with rep resentatives present of the most reac- tionary autocracy in the world" the premier continued Russia is now unshaci1led and free, and her repre- tsentafives at the peace conference would be representatives of a free people fighting for freedom and ar ringing future democracy on the < lines of freedom Not merely would the Rnssian revolution insure a more Complete but @ higher, more exalted victory than ever was contemplated before"
 The premier further said
 s'No doubt we can have peace now at a price. Germany wants peace even Russia .ardently desires it. They said give us some indemnity for the wrongs we have done, just a little ter rftory here and a, little there and just few privileges in other directions and we, will clear out. We are told that If we are prepared to make peace now Germany will restore the inde- pendence of Belgium. But who has said so2
 NO German statesman has ever said he would restore the independence od Belg111m- The German chancellor came very near to it, but all the jplnkers fel on him and he received a sound box on the ear from the mailed fist
 The only terms on which Germany has suggested restoring Belgium are not those oH independence but of vas salages Then came the doctrine of the status quo anf no annexation and nc Indemnity. No German statesman has accepted even that"
 No one," the premier said, wishes tc dictate to. the German people the form of goyefnment under which the, should choose to live. But it is righ, that we should say we will enter into M negotiations with a. free government <of Germany with different attitude of mind and a different temper ant different spirit and with less suspicion and more confidence that we shou1t w1tfAa government whom we feel to day to be dominated by the aggressiv, and arrogont spirit of Prussian mill tarism
 'sAals the Allies government will. fl my Judgment, be acting wisely If the, draw, that distinction in the genera attitude toward the discussion of peac, terms"