Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-06
Territorial Changes, Treaty Sanctity, Less Armament
 All Demanded.
CONSENT OF PEOPLE
 KEYNOTE OF SPEECH
All Territorial RcadiuStmcnt> to Be Made t0 Suit Wishes and interests of People 0f iHected Sections
 Rejects Tcuton Terms.
Associated Press SummaryD )

Great Britain's war aims were set forth yesterday by Premier Lloyd- George in the broadest and most spe- cifc manner in which they have yet been stated. The premier made it clear what the British nation and em- pire would regard as . just and dura- ble peace. This he declared must be achieved by re-establishment of the sanctity of treaties, territorial adjust ments on the basis of self-government and limitation of armaments guaran- teed by an international organization. Great Britain was not fighting, said the premier, to disrupt Germany, de- stroy Austria=Hungary or take Tur- hev's capital or her home land from her. The desire, he insisted, was to turn Germany from her schemes of military domination to beneficent tasks in the world, and to settle ter ritoral questions in a way that would do justice to various nationalities af- fected In effect, the speech was a re- jection of peace terms of the central powers as voiced by their spokesmen recently at Brest- Litovsk.
 Goes Into Detail.
 IHc pICIiIltl SpCCSH "do ioi chC most part an affirmative utterance. With great detail he went into the many problems calling for solution if peace was to be forthcoming. Thus he indicated Belgium must be com pletely restored and reparation made to her as far as possible; France have the wrong of 1871-the taking from her of Alsace-Lorraine- and independent Poland must be estab- lished, including all of Polish nation- ality who desire to join in it. The people of such regions as Arabia, Pal estine, Mesopotamia and Armenia, who have been under Turkish domina- tion, must have their separate na- tional conditions recognized. The wishes and interests of the natives of German colonies must be primarily re- garded by the peace conference. Claims of Italy for reunion of those of her own race and language must be regarded as vital. Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro must be restored. All these and other adjustments, the premier showed, would be carried out in accordance with the great principle of self f-government-or the consent of the governed-the eunuciation of which may be taken as the keynote of his speech. Regret that Russia was no longer on the side of the allies was expressed by the premier, who de- clared that only Russia's own people could save her now from falling ulti- mately under Prussian domination. Russians Not on Hand.
 An interesting development of the day was the publication that at Brest- Litovsk peace negotiators of the cen- tral powers arrived for resumption of peace negotiations with the Rus sians, only to find the Russians not there. It is said message was await ing them proposing traNIfer of nego- tiations to Stockholm. It appeared later, however, according to German advices, that the Russian delegates on learning that the Germans had re- turned to Brest-Litovsk, were return ing from Petrograd for the former place, accompanied by Leon Trotsky, Bolsheviki foreign minister.
 Military operations of a major na- ture are virtually at standstill on all fronts. none of the official statements recording anything but minor opera tions.