The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-12
GERMANY MUST PAY ALL
 OF THE COST OF WAR
No Doubt But That the Kaiser Com. mitted a Crime Against lnterna- tionaI Right and Ought to Be Held Responsible for That Crime by the Allied Forces.

London. Dec t1-Premier Lloyd George, speaking today at Bristol, said the military service act was passed in order to meet a great emergency. When that emergency was passed. the need was passed ana the act would lapse. He added there was no intention to renew it, Wheth CT Great Britain would require con scription in the future in any shape or form. ME Lloyd George said, de. pended not upon the opinion which he now expressed, but upon the peace terms which were made. Continuing the prime minister said
 What drove us to conscTipton was the existence of conscript armies on the continent that inevitably rushed the word into war They could not have great military machines there without tempting the men at the head of them to try their luck with those machines. The Germans always tei' there was nothing to resist then per feet military machine.
 '1f you want a permanent, peace; | you want to prevent the horrors q this war being repeated you Minus, put an end to conscript armies on the continent of Europe,
 "The first thing to do is to prevent the repetition Of blunders of the past by making 1t impossible to have those great conscript armies in the future.
 We did not have the machinery for an offensive war Our navy is a defensive weapon and not an often sive one: and that is why we do not mean to give it up. We have kept these islands free from invasion for centuries and we mean to take no risk in the future
 MT Lloyd George declared that the decision which would be taken in the next few months in the peace confer ehce was going 10 leave a mark upon the world. The ages to come. he said, would be able to reap tho fruits of it.
 The premier next dealt with the question of indemnity. He declared the war had cost Germany less than it had cost Great Britain. It has cost Great Britain he declared, eight btl- lion pounds. gigantic sum. lhe German bill. he believed, was six bi'- lion bounds. or seven billion pounds. He contended 1t was indefensible that the person who was in the wrong and who lost should not pay more than the person who was declared to be in the right and had won. The premier said n British imperial 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 tc demand the whole cost of the war from Ger many
 "Thlrd-When you come to the eA' acting of it we must exact it in such d way that it does not do more harm to the country that releives 1t than the country that is paying it.
 "Fourth-The commission appoint ed by the British cabinet believes that can be done.
 "Fifth-The allies are in exactly ,he same boat We shall put in our demands all together and whatever thoy are they must come in front of ! the German war debt"
 The prime minister continued:
 The first coRsideration m the mmds of the alAes will be the con | sIdoration of ti people upon whom