Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-13
GEORGE GIVES. OU THINE IF PEACE PLAN.
Preparation by Germany Will Be Insisted Upon, Asserts
 British Premier in Answer to Parliament Mem b CT

LONDON. Feb. I2.-(By the Asso- ciated Press. }-Premier Lloyd George spoke again today on the general
 peace situation. The. occasion was | brought about by the Right Honor able Rupert Guinness, unionist. asking whether the premier was prepared to
 press to the utmost reparation from
 Germany and also to make Germany
 pay to the full extent of her resour-
 ceS He also pressed for more infOr- nation as to the status Of the British colonies at the peace conference. We have had far 100 much of the ! particular panacea which America is | supporting at che conference." said Captain Guinness. sSince the days of | Mahomet no prophet has been listened
 to with more superstitious respect than President Wilson
 Reparation Certain | Mir Lloyd George began his reply by saying that reparation by Germany was the election pledge given by the government after careful considera-
 ton by the cabinet The government.
 he added. stood by every word Of this
 pledge.
 The premier. defending the proceed ings of the peace conference, said the l government had been devotins it's ! time to speeding up agreements. He ! was sanguine that . complete agree ment would be reached concerning the ] German western boundary, but the 2 eastern boundary was a different mat ter. Until the commission sent to eN- l anime the matter reported. the allies would be in no position to make de niands upon Germany. The conference
 was unanimous, that Germainy had ! forfeited all rights to her colonies,
 he said.
 l MT. Lloyd GeOrge contended that i with regard to indemnities the British government was in advance of any l government as 1t was the first to ap- point a commission 10 deal with this matter.
 He declared there had never been l any. proposal advanced at the peace | confer ence to recognize the bosheE ists.
 Calis BcishevIsts AssassiQs 1 RuSs-a was easy to dCSTaSUZe about ! but difficult 10 deal with. Ee admit :. ted that the horrors Of bolShevism ! were so great that there was a sense
 Of disgust when they came to deai with it's leaders, but 1t was useless to blind their eyes to the real facts. Russia represented an area over half of Europe, and nearly half oi Asia, and he pointed out, if peace were
 not made. the whole of this immense territory would be seething in anar
 chy, disorder and hlOOdshed; there
 would be no peace in the world. The bolsheviStS, the premier de clared, were assasSins, guilty of the crimes laid to their charge. The allies had given the anti-bolsheviki govern ment financial support and assistance Much of their equipment had been sup
 piled by the allies, who were anxiou: to keep the rich territories of Russia
 out of German hands
 , If troops were to be sent to Russia > who should send them? America, h, said would send neither men, none!
 nor material, and the work would fal upon the British and French | No Recognition } The bOlshevist machinery in Russi; . was ruthless and brutal but there wa t no doubt about its efficiency, and tn, ! only machinery there. Everybody il t the past who had interfered in Russii '- had come to grief. There was no idei of recognizing the bolshevists; it wa
 quite impossible to do so as long a
 they were pursuing their presen methods. It might be argued, he said , that the bOlshevists governing by tel
 TOT. The same could be said of tn
 French revolution. He was unable t n disclose the figures that interventio s would involve, but after seeing then y no sane man, he declared, would aG l. wise the allies after five years of wal 0 to undertake the enterprise $ BOlsheviki power had grown strong while both England and Germany wer s too occupied to attack it.
 If We won. how long should W
 occupy the country" he asked, .'an
 what guarantee would there be ths
 when we withdrew a dependable go1 $ ernment would be set up?" l. Useless to Send Food Referring to the alternative of a IL lowing the fire in Russia to burn itse r. out, the premier characterized this $ brutal policy. and added that it wOul