Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-03
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

Fully agreeing with the stand taken
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 60 on until the
militsrlst caste in Prussia has been
completely broken. Germany, he de-
clared, must be forced to give up the
lands she has invaded and compensate
fer 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. Mesepotamia, Armenia and
Jerusalem can never be given back to
Turkey, he said, but Great Britain did
not enter the war for the territorial
aggrnndizement of any nation.
Reviewing the military situation, Mr..
Lloyd George admitted that 1t 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 llmlt and that the
pledges given to labor in 1915 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-
Perforated about 33 per cent because
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 Austrlans, and the submarine
campaign is gradually being overcome.
| America Urged to Get Up Speed.
President Wilson and his admins
Sration 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, II
is known that he laid before Mr.. Will
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, Bainbridge 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 tC
a greater extent than England anC
France have admitted. Mr.. Wilson Il
reported to have been greatly i'm
pressed with the information given ant
1t became evident to him that the ship
building program must be enlarged ant
It's carrying out hastened.
Shakeup In War Department.
Meanwhile senate and house commit
tees continued their inquiry into oul
war preparations, with results tha
were more to the credit of the nav,
than of the army department. Revela
tions made concerning the delays II
procuring and distributing supplies ant
arms for the army, together with tn
presidents talks with Colonel House
whose influence IS great-probabl
Justly so--may be said to have led t
the changes in the war departmen
which put General Goethals at tn
head of the quartermaster general
huraau and Gen. O. b. wheeler Il