The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
Lloyd George, in Detailed
Statement, Asserts Kaiser
Must Be Prosecuted and
Calls War Crime.
EXPULSION OF ENEMIES
PROMISED TO ENGLAND
Legal Experts, After Study of
Question, Decide Former
German Ruler Should Be
Tried by international Court

LONDON, Dec. 6.-ln the detailed re-
statement Of his policy issued by Pre-.
mier Lloyd George, calling for the trial
and punishment Of the men responsible
he pledged the entire influence Cf the
British government at the peace con-
ference to see that justice wasI done.
In declaring for the expulsidn and
exclusion of all enemy aliens frohj Brit
ish soil, the premier pointed out that
dents in the United Kingdom during
the war had abused British hospitality
and thus had forfeited their claims
to remain.
In his statement the premier, after
paying a warm tribute to the soldiers
and sailors of the empire said
The kaiser must be prosecuted. The
war was crime. Who doubts thatP
1t was a frightful, terrible crime! II
was n crime in the way In which it
was planned and in the deliberate wan
tonness with which it was provoked.
1t also was crime in the invasion Of
helpless little state and in the wicked
and most brutal treatment of that little
state Remember the treaty Of neu-
trality, the scrap of paper!
surely the war was a crime. And
the fact that all these iniquitous things
were done in the name of war and
under the imperial edCt of an auto
crat does not change their nature. The
war was a hideous, abominable crime,
a crime which has sent millions of the
best young men Of Europe to death and
mutilation and has plunged myriads
Of homes into desolation.
rs no one responsible? Is no one to
be called to account? Is there to be no
punishment? Surely that is neither
Gods justice nor mans. The men re-
sponsible for this outrage on the hui
man race must not be let off because
their heads we're crowned when they
perpetrated the deed.
Experts Agree.
The British government referred the
question of the criminal culpability of
the kaiser and his accomplices to their
law officers some weeks ago. They
invited a body Of jurists in England To
investigate the matter and they have
unanimously come to the conclusion
that the kaiser and his accomplices in
the making Of this war ought to be
also reported strongly IN favor Of the
punishment of those guilty of murder
on the high seas and the abominable
il-treatment of prisoners.
1.-THE British government will use its
whole Influence at the pesce confer
ence to seefthat justice is executed.
After what has happened In the last
four or five years IL is impossible to
entertain In our midst population OF
which a considerable portion abused our
hospitality. This has been demonstra-
ted by evidence impossible to ignore.
They spied and plotted and assisted
Germany in forming plans for the de-
struction Of a country which offered
them hospitality. They thus have for
feited any claim to remain.
Further, 1t would lead to inevitable
irritation and disturbance II Germans
who have been fighting us for four
years came to take the bread Of the
mouths Of the men whom they for
four years sought to destroy, and much
as | regret that, it Is impossible TO
have free intercourse between all ma
tions. hold we are up against the
events Of the last few years, for which
Germany alone is responsible and she
must abide the consequences,
"All the European allies have ac-
cepted the principle that the central
powers must pay the cost of the war
up to the limit Of her capacity. The
| allies propose to appoint a committee
Of experts to examine the best method
Of exactfng the indemnity"
| In one passage Of his program, that
| dealing with measures for an increase
of British output, Lloyd George says
There Is one condition for the sue
cess Of all efforts to increase the out
| put OF this country, namery, confidence
Bolshevism is the poison Of production
| Russia proves that. Russia will not be.
| gin the building up of productive sys-
tenn until Bolshevism has worked Itself
| out"