The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1918-12-04
BRITAIN TO INSIST
on STERN JUSTICE
Germany Must Pay for Wrongs She
Has Done to Limit Of Her Capa-
city, Declares Lloyd
George.

London, Nov 29.-David Lloyd
George, the British prime minister,
in a. speech at New Castle today,
said the victory of the entente allies
had been due to the ceaseless valor
OF their men and that it would be
lesson to anybody who in the future
thought that they, as the Prussian
war lords hoped, could overlook htls
little island in their reckoning"
I'VE are now approaching the
peace conference" the premier COLI
tinued. "The price of victory IS not
vengeance nor retribution. It IS pre-
yention. First of all, what about
those people whom we have received
without question for years TO our
shores; to whom We give equai rights
with our own sons and daugncers and
who abused that hospitality to betray
the land, to plot agains security, to
spy upon it and to gain suca inror-
nation as enabled the Prussian war
lords to inflict not punishment, but
damage and injury, on the land that
had received them as guests? Never
again"
Mr.. Lloyd George said the interests
of security and fair play, demanded
that it should be made perfectly clear
that the people who acted in this way
merited punishment for the damage
they had inflicted.
Must Pay to Her Limit.
The second question was the ques-
ton of indemnities, the premier add-
ed. In every court of justice through
out the world the party which lost
has had to bear the cost OF the litiga-
ion. When Germany defeated France
she established the principle, and
there was no doubt that the principle
was the right one. Germany must pay
the cost of the war up to the lim1;
OF her. capacity. asz
"But I must use one WORD O; warn
ing," said Mr.. Lloyd George. I'VE
have to consider the question of Ger
many's capacity. Whatever happens
Germany is not to be allowed 20 pay
her indemnity by dumping cheap
Goods upon us. That is the only limit
in principle we are laying down. She
must not be allowed to pay for her
wantcn damage and devastation by
dumping cheap goods and wreckins
our industries.
THE is a third and last point. is
the war? Somebody has been re-
sponsible for a war that has take1.
the lives of millions o. .ae best
young men o. Europe. Is not any
one to be made responsible for That !:
Il not, all l can say is tnsa it that
is the case, there is one Justice Ior
the poor wretched criminal and an
otuer for kings and emperors."
Has Yiolated Laws of Nations.
Mr. Lloyd George declared that
there were two offenses against the
lsw Of nations that had been commit
ted.
"One," he said, "is the crime
against humanity in the deliberate
plotting of the great war. The 9TH
er is the outrage upon international
laW. 1t is crime, a brucaI CRIME, to
devastate the lends of another. Who
ever did that ought to be responsible
for it.
"The submarine warfare did no.
mean only the sinking of ships, but l..
was a crime against humanity IN that
it sank thousands of harmless mer-
chentmen. In the whole history O..
warfare between nations taa. had
never been sanction. 1t IS rank p:rG-
cy and the pirates must receive the
punishment.
Il mean to see that the men WHO
did not treat our prisoners with nu-
manity are to be made responsible.
want this country to go To court
with clean conscience anc sne%will
do so. There is not stain OH ner
record. We will not be afraid 20 ap-
pear before any tribunal.
''Now these are the things which
we have to investigate. We mean tina,
the investigation shall be an imperial
one. perfectly fair one. We also
mean it shall be a stern on>, nuG that
it shall go on the final reckon
ing.
Eve have got so to act now that
men in the future who feel tempted
to follow the example OF the rulers
who plunged the world into this war
will know what is awaiting them at
the end of it. We shall have to sec
that this terrible war, which has in
flicted SO much destruction ON the
world, which has arrested tine course