The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-17
ALL PRINCIPLES ORIGINAL TREATY
 ARE RETAINED IN
 REPLY OF ALLIES
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"As soon as their preparations were complete, they encouraged subservi- ent ally to declare war on Serbia on AS hours notice, a war involving the control of the Balkans. which they knew could not be localized and which was bound to unchain general war.
 EIn order to make doubly sure. they refused every attempt mt concIlintion and conference until it was too late and the world war
 was inevitable, for which they had
 plotted and for which, alone
 amozE the nations, they were ade-
 quateIy equipped and prepared.
 "Germany's responsibility, however, is not confined to having planned and started the war She is no less re- sponsible for the savage and inhuman manner in which it was conducted. Though Germany was herself tEe guaranty of Belgium, Germany vio- lated the rules after a solemn prom ise to respect the neutrality of this unoffending people.
 Not content with this, they delio- erately carried out a series of prom:s- cuous showing and burnings with the sole object of terrifying the inhabit- ants into submission by the very frightfulness of their action. They were the first to use poisonous gas, knowing the appalling suffering 1t en- tailed. They began the bombing and long distance shelling of towns, for no military object, but solely for the purpose of reducing the morale of their opponents by striking at their women and children.
 STARTED SUB CAMPAIGN
 ''They commenced the submarine campaign, with it's piratical challenge to international law and it's destruc- ton of great numbers of innocent pas- seneers and sailors in midocean, far from succor, at the mercy of the winds and waves, and the yet moro ruthless submarine crews. They drove thousands of women and children with brutal savagery into slavery in foreign lands; they allowed barbarities to be practiced against their prisoners of war. from which the most uncivilized people would have recoiled.
 The conduct of Germany is almost unexampled in human history. The terrible responsibility which lies al her doors can be seen by the fact that not less than 100000 dead lie buried in Europe, while more than 0,000.09e others carry upon them the evidence of wounds and suffering, because Ger many saw fit to gratify her lust for tyranny\by resort to war
 "The allied and associated powers believe that they will be false to those who have given their all to save the freedom of the world if they consent to treat war on any other basis than a crime against humanity and right
 'SThe attitude of the allied and as sociated powers was made perfectly clear to Germany during the war by their principal statesmen. It was de- fined by President Wilson in his speech of April 6, 1918, and explicitly and categorically accepted by the Ger man people by a principle covering ths peace:
 ~Iet everything that we say,
 my fellow countrynen. everything
 that we henceforth plan and ac-
 complish, ring to this response, till
 the majesty and might of our con-
 certed power shall fill the thought
 and utterly defeat the force Of
 those who f1out and misprize what
 we honor and hold dear. Ger
 many has once more said that
 force, and force alone, shall de-
 eide whether justice and peace
 shall reign in the affairs of men,
 whether right, America con-
 ceiyes it, or dominion. as she con-
 ceives it, shall determine the des-
 tinies of mankind. There Is.
 therefore, but one response pos-
 sibIe from us: force. force to the
 utmost, force without stint or
 limit, the righteous and triumph
 ant force which shall make the
 law of the world and cast every
 selfish dominion down in de-
 feat.'"
 M. Clemenceau also quotes from Premier Lloyd George of Great Rr:- tain, himself as premier of France and Premier Orlando of Italy, in whiR 1t was specifically declared that whe, victory was wOn compromise as to peace terms was impossible and just punishment should be meted~out and continues:
 JUSTICE ONLY BASIS
 Justice. therefore, is the only pos