New Britain herald., 1918-12-12
$l2O,o0o,OOO,OOOIS IS
 WHAT HUN MUST PAY
Allies Propose to Demand Full Cost Of War Says Lloyd George

Bristol, England, Dec. 12, (Asso- ciated Press. )--The war bill of the Allies against Germany is f24,0oo.- 100000 (s12o.0oo, ,0oo,oo0,) according to the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, speaking before a large gathering here.
 Before the war the estimated wealth of Germany, said the premier, was 5,000,000,000 to f20,0o0.0oo,- 900 sterling, so that if the whole wealth of Germany were taken, he said, there would not be enough to pay the account, therefore, he had before this used the words, Germany should pay to the utmost limit of her capacity"
 Ehugland's Cost $40 o,OOO, ,00O, 1000.
 The premier stated that the war had cost Germany less than it had cost Great Britain. It had cost Great Britain, he stated, f8,000, 100000 s40,o0O, ,00o, o,000)-a gigantic sum. The German bill, he believed, was 5000, 100000 (sSo,ooO, ,o0O.ooo) or 100000 ($35, 0,000;OOo) He contended that it was indefensible that the person who was in the wrong and had lost should pay less than the person who was declared to be ia the right and had won.
 Demands Full Payment
 The premier said that a British inn rperial commission had been appointed to investigate the capacity of Germany (to pay) and that he had received its report He summarized his remarks on this point as follows:
 First--As far as justice IS con-
 cerned we have an absolute right
 to demand the whole cost of the
 war from Germany.
 Second-We propose to demand
 the whole cost of the war from
 Germany. D..
 Third-When you come to the
 exacting of 1t, we must exact in
 such a way that it does not do
 more harm to the country that
 receives it than the country that
 is paying for it.
 Fourth--The committee ap
 pointed by the British cabinet be
 lieves that that can be done.
 Fifth--The Allies are in exact
 ly the same boat. We shall put
 in our demands all together and
 whatever they are they must come
 in front of the German war debt.
 The prime minister continued.
 The first consideration in the minds of the Allies will be the interests of the people upon whom the Germ have made war and not in the inter- ests of the German people who have made war and have been guilty of that crime.'
 Intend to Punish Kaiser. With regard to the former German emperor, the premier said There is absolutely no doubt tf he has committed crime against in ternational right, and there is abso- lutely no doubt that he ought to be held responsible for it, so far as the European Allies are concerned" The premier said that he hoped that America would take the same view when President Wilson arrived as to the demand that would be put forward on the part of the European Allies "to make the kaiser and his accomtplices responsible for this terrible crime" The premier said that the military service act was passed to meet a great emergency When that emergency was passed the need was passed and the act would lapse, he said, adding that there was no intention to renew it. Whether Great Britain would re- quire conscription in the future in any shape or form, MT. Lloyd George said, depended not upon the opinion which he now expressed, but upon the peace terms which were made.
 Explains Conscription. Continuing, the prime minister said :