Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-28
By EDWARD w. PickARD.

Fully agreeing with he stand AIKEN
by President Wilson, Premier Lloyd
George told the house of commons
Thursday that peace cannot be made
with the present rulers Of Germany
and that the war must go on until the
militarist caste In Prussia has been
completely broken. Germany, he de-
clared, must be forced to give up the
lands she has invaded and compensate
for losses, and the disposition of her
former colonial possessions must be
settled in the peace conference and
with regard to the desires of their in
habitants. Mesopotamia, Armenia and
Jerusalem can never be given back to
Turkey, he said, but Great Britain did
not enter the war for the territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of any nation.
Reviewing the military situation, Mr..
Lloyd George admitted that it was
serious, mainly because of the defec-
ton of Russia, and he warned Britain
that its man power would have to be
increased to the limit and that the
pledges given to labor ia 1916 regard
ing men exempted must be altered or
Cancelled. The results of the British
campaign, he admitted, had not come
up to expectations, but, looking at the
brighter side, Germany has had but
one victory, the surprise attack south
of Cambria, German workers have de-
of poor food, the permanent losses of
the German army have been four or
five times as great as those sustained
by the British, the losses Of the Ital-
ians are not to be compared with those
of the Austrians, and the submarine
campaign is gradually being overcome.
America Urged to Get Up Speed.
President Wilson and his admins
tration received several impressive.
warnings last week that America must
get up more speed. These came from
delegates to the recent interallied con-
ference in Paris. First to report was
Colonel House, the chairman of the
delegation, and though the details of
his statement were not made public, 1t
is known that he laid before Mr.. Viii
son facts and figures that proved the
allies must exert their maximum
strength in the quickest possible time,
and that their war activities must be
co-ordinated and waste and delay re-
duced to a minimum.
Next, cambridge Colby of the ship
ping board and Vance Mccormick Of
the war trade board went to the White
House and presented to the president
the information on shipping they had
obtained abroad. This embraced the
fact that the submarine campaign has
interfered with allied war activities to-
q greater extent than England and
France have admitted. Mr.. Wilson is
reported to have been greatly Inn
pressed with the information given and
it became evident to him that the ship.
building program must be enlarged and
it's carrying out fastened.
Shakeup in War Department.
Meanwhile senate and house commit
tees continued their inquiry into our
war preparations, with results that
were more to the credit of the navy
than of the army department. Revela-
tons made concerning the delays in
procuring and distributing supplies and
arms for the army, together with the
presidents talks with Colonel House,
whose influence is great-probably
justly so-may be said to have led to
the changes In the wal department
which put General Goethals at the
head of the quartermaster generals
bureau and Gen. G. B. Wheeler In