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Show W1LHELM TO PAY PENALIUOf war i FORMER KAISER TO BE PLACED ' ON TRIAL BEFORE A TRI BUNAL, AT LONDON i Lloyd George, Who Gives Unqualified Approval to Work of Peace Conference, Confer-ence, Promises Punishment for Mad Doj of Europe. London. In the house of commons on July 3. Premier Lloyd George delivered de-livered an explanalio of the peace treaty, which he described as i lie most "momentous document to which the British empire ever affixed its seal." Though showing the effects of his long labors at Paris and lacking his usual fire, the premier at times made impassioned utterances, and was loudly loud-ly cheered. His announcement that the former German emperor would soon be placed on trial before a tribunal trib-unal sitting in Loudon was cheered most of all, while his presentation of the Anglo-French convention, providing provid-ing for British aid if Germany should attack France unprovoked a convention conven-tion aualagous to one between the United Stales and France was greeted greet-ed with restrained approval. Discussing the determination of the allied and associated powers to place on trial William Hohenzollern, the former for-mer German emperor, as the man held chiefly responsible for the war, he declared de-clared that if such a course had been followed after other wars, "there would have been fewer wars." It was the intention to make such an example of Germany as to discourage others ironi ever again aiiempiiiii; iu u-i-i-.n this infamy." There was a significant passage when the premier first mentioned the League of Nations. Many of the members mem-bers cheered, but seemingly nearly an equal number burst into laughter. "I beg of you to try it. I beg of you to take it seriously," the premier pro-, tested. Proceeding, he declared : "If it saved only one generation from the horrors of war, it would be a great achievement." |