The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-21
MRS. PANKHURST WOULD MAKE HUN PAY IN FULL TO SATISFY CALL
 OF THOSE WHO GAVE UP LIVES
Noted Suffrage Leader Says U S. and England Should Demand Full Restitution From Ravages
 of Europe.

If the Allies abate one jot of their guilty Germany the lives of those who died to thwart German greed will have been given up in vain. America and Great Britain, who suffered the least of all of the Allies, who were spared the supreme horror of invasion, owe it to the others to enforce the restitution that they de- manded from Germany at Paris,
 f'The first consideration of the two great English speaking allies should be the needs of their friends, not the debts of their enemies
 There, Gin two words,'' is the reply of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, for merIy standard bearer in the English FFVotes for Women movement, to the statement on the indemnity question which her old political enemy, Her bert Asquith, is reported as having made in the course of a speech at Paisley, Scotland, last week. Mrs. Pankhurst is staying at the Stratford H~use. She has been in this coun- try since last September.
 Speaking in the bye election cam paign in the Paisley district, for whose seat he is canvassing votes to return him to Parliament, MT. As
 quith is quoted as saying:
 CT am disposed to believe, after making proper allowances for what is needed to start Germany's indus trial life again, that 2,000,0 1000 pounds is the outside indemnity ob- | tainab1e from Germany. If I were 1 the Chancellor of the Exchequer ] ! would write off anything above this as a bad and doubtful asset
 ASO11itJ7 ic oI1O+- ed," Mrs. Pankhurst told a New Yorl,
 correspondent, "then he is simply | carrying on with the old defeatist | policies that he stood for through out the war. He is fostering a beliet l that Germany is most anxious to see 1 disseminated among her enemies. ''I can assure you that if this is his | estimate in Great Britain MT. Asquitf 1 need be little feared as a, possible as pirant for the position of Chancellor f of the Exchequer."
 ''As I see it,' Mrs. Pankhurst con. 1 tinued, ''the question of whether we ! shall be able to extradite a blacklis | of German war criminals is of very | little moment beside the question O. l whether we shall be able to obtain 1 justice for stricken France, Serbis 1 and Belgium by compelling German! | to make payment for the havoc sh, l wrought in her ruthless invasion an. | in her quite as ruthless retreat. Wh, | all this fuss over trying these inciter l to crime of whose guilt we have suc1 | terrible proofs, anyhow? We would l try the Kaiser and sentence him ac l cording to the findings of some inter
 national court, when Napoleon Bona | parte, who was an angel of ligh alongside William IL, was given shor
 shrift and a quick sentence to St 1 Helena.
 "But isn't it true," Mrs. Pankhurs
 was asked, "that the English peopI l have a feeling that the enormou i indemnities that Lloyd George prom
 ised in his 1918 election campaign
 are illusions last fading and that the, would welcome a national policy tha
 would lead to the winding up of tn 1 war situation even at less cost t
 Germany so long as it could be don
 quickly and permit the Governmen l to get to reconstruction work with
 clean slate ?'
 'tIt is not" she replied quickly wit
 one of those energetic bursts Q | rapidly worded speech with whicl l she has disconce sauve CabI
 net ministers in her time. "Bu