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NAMES CHANCE TO VOICE COAL
V|ENSAT CAPITAL CITY HEARING
FIRST FIND OUT IF
GERMANY WILL PAY
view LLOYD GEORGE

lineage, OCT. IL (Bv A. P.)-The
blindness of force and violence is
the alternative to a policy of deter
mining through careful examination
the capacity of Germany to pay rep
arations, David Lloyd George, the
war time premier of Great Britain,
declared in an address tonight at
the International amphitheatre in
the heard of the stockyards district.
IL Germany is refusing to pay, he
added. the allies can be such means
determine that point and then force
payment by marching together in
any enterprise that is necessary.
Rciterating his endorsement of the
proposal of Secretary Hughes for an
international commission to ascertain
Germany's capacity to pay, the for
mer premier declared that this las
the only way to settle the trouble
some question.
Discussing the situation in Europe
with its exhaustion after the war
and the rcparations question as the
most acute phase of the situation,
Mr.. Lloyd George declared that it
was a fatal mistake to drive the Ger
man populations into despair.
I'VE want reparations," he added,
and revolution is not the way, to
get them
Speaking after n day spent in Sc
clusion recovering from the effects
OF a cold and fatigue, Mr. Iloyd
George showed little evidence of i'll
ness. The address was delivered to
IN audience which filled the vast
amphitheatre with its seating ca
pacity of 10000. Amplifiors carried
his voice to tho farthGst corners .Ra =
dio carried the address farther. TO
unnunhered thousands.
Great Britain desired PREPARATION
Lloyd George explained. but was fol-
lowing her traditional policy of mod :
eratencss in victory as the surest
way of attaining the end.
You cannot examine lCdgcrS with
bayonets" no remarked.
Can Germany pay now? If she
can she ought to. 1t is to her inter-
est to get done with it,
'Mr. secretary Hughes delivered a
very important speech at the begin
ming of this year at New Haven. I
think in which he proposed that the
whole question of Germany's ca
pacity to pay should be examined by
a commission of business experts
and he made. it clear if a commission
of that Kind were appointed every
facility would be given for an Am
erican expert to be on that body. a
thoroughly practical, business like
proposal.
The United State of America
- is very well disposed towards
France and therefore. with a friendly
country, absolutely impartial, with
a great fund of business knowledge
at it's disposal. represented in a body
of that kind it seems to me we
would find a way to ascertain how
mach Germany can pay and once
we have done that, then We could
march together TO compel her to
pay.
way to settle this troublesome ques-
ton without creating further distur-
bance"
Brigadier General Charles G.
Dawes. who presided. in his intro
duction of the former premier, stres-
sed the debt he said America owed
Mr.. Lloyd George and Englnd in the
World War. He said it was when
the British army held the Germans
after the French had become dis
couraged that America came to
know something of the iron will OF
the British leaders.
Mr.. Lloyd Georges action in plac-
ing command of the allied armies in
the hands of Marshall Foch and cen =
tralizng authority had saved the al
lies. he said. 1.-THE action Brig.
Cen. Dawes said. was the keynote
in Lloyd Georges campaign