Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-06
War Cannot End Until PrinCi-
pie Of SeIf-government Is
Applied by Germany, Aus
tria, Turkey and Bulgaria.
RESTORATION MUST BE
WITHOUT RESERVATION
Trotzky Goes With Russian
Delegation to Meet Central
Powers Representatives N
Conference at BreSt-LitvoSk.


Great Britains war aims were set
forth yesterday by Premier Lloyd
George in the broadest and at the
same time most specific manner they
have yet been stated.
In one of the most striking and
comprehensive utterances of the war
the premier made clear what the
British nation and empire would re-
gard as a Just and durable peace.
This, he declared, must be achieved
by the re-establisnment of the sanctity
of treaties, territorial adjustments on
the basis of self-government and the
limitation of ornaments guaranteed
by an international organization.
Great Britain was not fighting, said
the premier, to disrupt Germany, de-
stroy Austria Hungary or to take Tur-
keys capital or her home lands from
her. The desire, instead, he insisted
was to turn Germany from her schnes
of military domination to beneficent
task in the world and to settle terri
torial questions of the war in way
that would do justice to the various
nationalities affected
Rejects Central Powers Terms.
In effect, a reply to and rejection
of the peace terms of the central
powers. as voiced by their spokesman
recently at Brest-Litovsk, the pre-
miers speech was, for the most part,
an affirmative utterance. In great de-
tail he went into the many problems
calling for solution if the peace he
had in mind was to be forthcoming.
Thus he indicated Belgium must be
completely restored and reparation
maze to her as far as possible; France
must have the wrong of 1S71-the
taking from her of Alsace- Lorraine
righted; an Independent Poland must
be established, including all of Polish
nationality who desire to Join in it:
the peoples of such regions as Arabia,
Palestine, Mesopotamia and Armenia.
who have been under Turkish domi-
nation, must have their separate ma.
uonal conditions recognized; the
wishes and interests of the natives of
the German colonies must be pirms-
,egarded by the peace conference.
the claims of Italy for reunion for
those or her own race and langlla pe
must be regarded as vital; Rumania.
Serbia and Montenegro must be re.
stored.
Self-gOvernment Keynote.
All these, and other like adjust
ments, the premier showed would, he
carried out in accodance with the
principles of self-government, or the
consent Of the government, the enun-
citation of which may be taken as the
Keynote of his speech. This form of
settlement, he declared should replace
the old system of negotiations at a
council table by few schemers trying
TO promote the interests of one dynas-
ty or another.
regret that Russia was no longer
hghting on the sides of the allies wa.
expressed by the premier, who de.
ciared only Russia's own people woulc
save her now from falling ultimately
under Prussian domination.
In beginning, the premier pointed
out that he was speaking not mereI,
FOR the British government, He had
neen at pains to consult representa-.
i've opinion of all sections of thought
before framing his utterances. ant
thus was speaking the mind of a ma
uon and the empire.
lrotzky Goes to Conference
An interesting development of the
day was the complication at Brest
Litovsk, where the peace negotiation,
of the central powers arrived for a re
sumption Of the conferences with the
Russians only to find the Russia ,
representatives were not there. Tn.
stead message was awaiting then
proposing the transfer Of the negotia,
tions to Stockholm. 1t appeared later
however, according to German ad
vices, that the Russian delegates. or
learning that the Germans had re
turned to Brest-Litovsk, were start
ing from Petrograd for the forme,
place, accompanied by Leon Trotzky
the Bolsheviki foreign minister.
Military operations of major 10
ture are virtually at standstill on al
the fronts.e None of the officia
statements record anything but mino
operations.