The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-11
FULL JUSTICE" IS
HUGHES DEMAND
Premier Calls for Reparation
Nay Try Kaiser.
ny G.. s. ADAMS.
Special Gable Despdtch 70 TIE Sun from the
Losdon Times Service


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PARIS, March 10.-The Committee on
Responsibility for the War will present
its report soon. 1t uses with consider
able effect certain remarks made by
Marshal Won Bielerstein at The Hague
as to what is or is not permissible In
sea warfare and convicts the Germans,
50 TO speak. on their own evidence.
Set out in the report are two cate
gories OF. breaches of law. In order TO
avoid delay it is recommended that all
offences which fall. as 1t were, under
the common law of the state to which
the accused belong shall be tried by
their national courts and that offences
switch are OF a more general nature such
as those connected with the responsible
lty for the war and those involving re-
lations OF subordinates to superiors shall
be tried before international courts.
Kaiser Heads the List.
:. The list OF persons who, it is suggested,
should be brought before this interna
tonal tribune Is headed by ex-Emperor
William. No recommendation, 1t is be-
1ieved. is made in the report as to the
a1leans which shall be adopted to bring
the ex-kaiser to justice. but among the
members OF the committee there is great
hope that his extradition may be de-
lnanded from Holland.
Premier Hughes of Australia was the
guest at luncheon yesterday OF the city
of Lyons, the event being part Of the
fair programme. NJ. Harriet, the mayor,
presided. Premier Hughes took as the
Iext for his speech, Justice must be
done"
:, Germany" he said, deliberately at
tackled the civilized world and deliber
sately endeavored to crush liberty and
conquer the world. She has slain mill
ions OF men on the battlefield, has assas-
sinated treacherously and maltreated
thousands and tens of thousands Of in
recent non-combatants. men. women and
little children.
She has sunk at the bottom OF the
ocean thousands OF ships and millions
of tons after numbering in cold blood
the crews, devastated hundreds OF big
cities, towns and villages of France and
other countries and imposed on the allied
nations a crushing burden OF debt. She
must pay. and that completely. for her
'unspeakable crimes.
"She fancies that by changing the
FORM of her government and by COM
bination o fother ingenious maneuvres
the may escape cha stisement, but she
will not succeed and she must not be
given the possibility Of succeeding. She
Snust reconstruct France, Belgium. Ser
pia and the other countries she has
tu!ned; must reconstruct workshops de-
g.berately destroyed ; must restore or re-
place machines and plants stolen must
reimburse the cost OF war. Justice
ar dc kae
tnsist on justice being done.
] ut 10 our duty to take all necessary
measures TO prevent Germany ever maxi
3ng war again on the world. Her navy
fnust be surrendered to us to the last vcs-
bel her army must be disarmed and dis
banded guns, large and small Yep
peins and airplanes must be handed
over TO us and her arsenals be RACED
Justice demands it and nothing less will
satisfy the free nations of the world.
Justice must be done and that without
delay
The centre OF general interest In the
Peace Conference has shifted from Paris
10 Berlin. While the enemy may be at
tempting to certain extent TO use the
DOGGY OF Bolshevism to screw out better
terms from the Allies there would seem
10 be little doubt that the present COM
munist movement does indeed very
has the same end In view, namely. the
complete destruction OF the present social
regime to rebuild the world in which the
proletariat may become dictators.
There are also many indications that
much Of the money which is being spent
lavlshly in.- promoting Spartaclsm
throughout the country is derived from
Russia. Some OF it, however, appears to
come from Switzerland, Holland and
England, Another similarity between
the two movements is to be found in the
nature OF the leaders. In Germany many
of them are Russian and then they are
1T least Bolshevik carpet haggers and
operate In districts other than their own
As in all revolutionary movements
there is mixture Of intellectuals and
brigands These people md a very
fertile soil for the seed which they are
scattering broadcast. There Is at the
present moment in Germany as a re-
suit OF the WEAKNESS OF defeat a COM
plete collapse OF all morality and bar
riers OF habit and decency have been
thoroughly broken down and corruption
Is everywhere rife. The movement finds
It's real strength In the fact that IL
slono Is in the country, has a real
political faith and II alone actively
breaches its creed,
The argument put forward at Spar
tacan meetings Is briefly that the exist
ing Government is Just about as bad
rs the last which betrayed Germany's
interest, which has been completely de-
feated and which is despised by the rest
of the world, Spartacan speakers point
10 the Spa negotiations as showing that
the Entente Powers themselves don't
trust the existing Military Ministry, for
otherwise food would long since have
arrived in the country and peace would