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Show WILL ffl Premier Lloyd George Makes Pointed Reply to Pacifist Plea by Lord Lansdowne; No Safety for World With German Outlaw Triumphant, Tri-umphant, He Declares. DARKEST HOUR OF GREAT STRUGGLE England Called On for Great Sacrifices and More Men Until American Amer-ican Forces Arrive to Offset the Defection of the Russians. LONDON, Dec. M. David Lloyd George, the Briti-sl prime minister, to-nisht to-nisht before the Benchers of the Cirey s Inn pronounced his latest word in the new phase of the peace discussion which was launched by the Marquis of Lansdowne Lans-downe 's recent notable loiter. Former Premier Asquith had followed the Marquis of Lunsdowne with an utterance utter-ance which coupled tho policy of the marquis with that of President Wilson, and found agreement between tho two. The premier's speech was pointed, as all his words were. Ho also endorsed President Wilson, but found no common ground in the palhs of Presidout AYilson and the Marquis of Lausdowne toward peace. It wa.s with ''painful ama.zo.mcnl , ? ' the premier said, "that he had read the Marquis of Lansdowno 's lclter. M He declared that the danger to the country wTas not from the active minority of extreme pacifists, toil, from "men who think there is a halfway house befween victory and defeat.'' The premier guro warning against making terms wilh the "triumphant outlaw'1 ami ngain.sl "peace, overtures to Prussia at tho very moment when the Prussian military spirit is drunk with bousl fulness. " Mr. Lloyd (teurgn said ho saw no prospect for world safety in a league of peace in whi.-h the criminal was stronger lhan the law. Ho saw tlie rrilieal st-'ige of the war at the time when fiermany is straining to strike ' belween the withdrawal of tho Ttusflinns and Hie entrance el' he American denio.-rary, and said the desiiny of the world depended (.11 what lireat Firilnin a.ud America could accomplish iu shipbuilding ship-building during I he next, year. The, premier pre-mier was silent as regards a new and specific, slalelucnt of war aims, which the Marquis of Lansdowne had urc.l and for which pneifi.-ds are making demands. de-mands. Effect of Let I or. Tn IdH rcf-'i t-'iirr to i )- cfTcr) of Tyird r.rtnudowno'R letter. Ihc prrroici- suld lie did not U-Jir the fMi-i-mr pn clfiM P. hijt th;it llieie win mi ;tciiv. nnnoiity f people peo-ple lilrf illlT t I iemse n ! i ( t h he view that the Intl.er WiH Mlpl0.:nl to ;i.lvni-;i(c and who thought thnt hi-'v luwf djnro-ercd djnro-ercd a lead- r in I lie ;tej,.ri t, nnforcii,:; I lm rnnntiv lido a pt'iioitine iuid a vau- . pished pe; "I warn the pa t ion. " .1 id (ho prm rr. 'to wat-'li no n w lm thinl' ihero is h Imlf-WilV Imlf-WilV house l.ftn.M P, v JlllfJ (lefl-al. Them is no sodi h-.tt-v.;v lioiise. T1)h: ' are the nr 11 who Uilnl' Hie wur can he ended now hy h.onn- 1 ort of pi n -. 1 1 ,H fiefiintr up of a le;ii:ni' nf nat'onr-'. with condtt ionr as to nihil ra 1 ion I or dispute"! and pi-o ion- for di a nn-i 1 1 1 and ih ;i rrp'.cniiil on (he p'M't of ad nations U slKO a treaty jiloi.i; 1 ht-:-e hne.. Farce Without Victory. "Tha it the nrht p.-j-v af'er vetnrv. Without vhlo-v it wf.'il-i I" a la.rce. Who WO'.; Id k' t II Mich h ! r'-;i t 7 I JTeSllloO. amooir otners. the people who have m far sij'-- es.f,,!l.v hrok-n the h.st. Win. wot 1 10 enfor- e Ihc n" t'-e.ilv? I pre-S'jme pre-S'jme the n-)' iotc ili.it hive so far not 0. 11 i t e s ,'-c hi- ;er in ei r f ore) ri Z 1 he li st . "To end the war erlt.r).(j uj "it and to erif'ir-f a ln-i'v wltoont v- ; ra t ion for infrii.'.-ement nr that in-af.. mei-'dy !. entcrlntf into l( more swiepin trentv. would indc.d he a far-e in ihe setting of a Irairedy. "U'e aie nrd inish',) t.- mere words lil-;e diFa vn;:i 10 e t,t , u r h 1 1 1 n 1 1 on n nd stniiln f teriDP. V'li cHIlItot ware "iir or recilfe ),;! hv mere vonls. W'e rnicht never to h.w Fia.rt. 1 mi.I'-u.v v,e me;,,,!, Ht all ha7,:itd-, to rotiipiet our l,nk, Idle (o T;slk of Sectnily. '( if 1 rin i'.- e o'.i e 1 1 en 1 1 i-S aie reji d v to nci-fjil a pe;ue eniiL: iie-n with sonie of rh he-o- pio. inc. and the l;,ii-ei elf,eS of Hussia in their poeKet s. Jt N id If to tall; of f""nrlty under su. ii conditions. con-ditions. TheT-e is 1,0 prow inn for life (Continued 011 Page Elevcnp LLOYD GEDRGE ASKS m WAR 10 Fill (Continued from Page One.) or property in a state where the criminal more powerful than the law. The law of nations Is no exception. We are dealing deal-ing with a criminal state now, and there will always be criminal states until the reward of international crime becomes too precarious to make it prolitable and the punishment of international crime becomes too sure to make it attractive. . "ttc are confronted with the alternatives alterna-tives of abasing ourselves in terror before be-fore the lawlessness which means 'ultimately 'ulti-mately a world intimidated by success ul bandits or going through wiih our task to establish a righteous and lasting pea.-e lor ourselvus and our chjtdren. Sureiy no nation with any regaid for its seif-respect seif-respect and any honor can hesitate a moment in its choice. Convinced of Success. "If there was no prospect of things going better the longer we fought, it would be infamous to prolong the war: hut because 1 am (irmly convinced, despite some untoward events and discouraging dis-couraging appearances, that, we are making mak-ing steady progress toward the desired goal, would regard peace overtures to i Prussia, at the very moment" when the Prussian milita ry spirit is drunk with hoastfulness, as a betrayal of the great, trust with which my colleagues and I have been charged. "The German victories have been emblazoned em-blazoned to the world, but her troubles did not appear in the bulletins. Mow- i ever, we know something of t hem. The deadly grip of the British navy is -having its effect and the valor of the troops is making an impression which will tell in the end. Persons who in the last fortnight have been organizing a nervous ner-vous breakdown in the nation are the same ones who recently were organizing organiz-ing a hysterical shouting- over the Flanders Flan-ders victories. "We are laying the foundation of the bridge that will carry us into a new world. Let us maintain steadiness and sanity of outlook. Not a Propitious Hour. "This is not the most propitious hour. Russia's threatened retirement from the war strengthens the Hohenzollerns and weakens the forces of democracy, but Russia's action will not lead, as she imagines, to universal peace It will simply prolong- the world's agony and inevitably in-evitably put her in bondage to Prussian military dominance. "It would be folly to underestimate the danger from the release of the enemy's eastern forces. It would be equally folly to exaggera te it; but the greatest folly of all would be not to face it. "If the Russian democracy has decided to abandon the struggle against military autocracy, the American democracy is taking it up. This is the most momentous momen-tous fact of the year, which has transposed trans-posed the whole situation. There is no more powerful country in the world than the United States, with their gigantic resources re-sources and indomitable people, and if Russia is out, America is coming in with both arms. No Time to Falter. "If it is the worst moment, it is because be-cause Russia has stepped out and America Amer-ica is only preparing to come in. Her army is not ready and her tonnage is unbuilt; un-built; but with every hour that passe? the gap formed by Russia's retirement will be filled by the valiant sons of the great American republic. Germany-knows Germany-knows it and Austria knows it. Hence the desperate efforts to force the issue before be-fore America is ready. They will not succeed, but we must be prepared for greater efforts and greater sacrifices. It is no time to cower or falter. "Great Britain's will is as tempered as steel and will bear right to the end. There must be a further drain upon our manpower man-power in. order to sustain the additional burden until the American army arrives. ar-rives. "There is no ground for; panic. Fven now, after we have sent troops to Italv, the allies have marked superiority in numbers in France and Flanders and. considerable reserves at home. Germany's Only Hope. "Much greater progress has been made in man -power in the last few months than either our friends or our foes realize, hut it is not enough to enable us to face the new contingencies without anxiety. The problem of man-power, however, does not end with the army. Victory now is a question of tonnage. Nothing can defeat us but the shortage of tonnage, and the advent of the United States has increased the tonnage, problem enormous-Iv. enormous-Iv. Germany has gambled on America's failure to transport, her army to Europe. The Prussian claim is that autocracy alone con do tilings. "The honor of democracy is at stake, and T do not doubt that the Prussians will be disillusioned, but both America and Grea t Britain will have to strain their resources to the utmost to increase their tonnage. The fact that American tonnage will be abrhed in the transport of their own armies compels us to increase in-crease our responsibilities in assisting France and Ita.ly with the transportation of essential commodities to their shores. "fn order to obtain the necessary men for this object., we must interfere to even a. greater extent than heretofore with the industries not absolutely essential essen-tial to the prosecution oT the war." Must Strip for Fight. Premier 1 ,loyd George in concluding emphasized how the counlry could aid by further economizing and in the increase in-crease of home production. "We must strip even barer for the fight!" he declared. In his reference to the recent letter of the Marquis of Lansdowne Mr. Lloyd George paid : "I now underptand that all our ; anxieties concerning this epistle were j groundless; that the Marquis of bans- ; downc did not intend to convey the meaning which his words might reasonably rea-sonably hear and i ha t all the time he was in complete agreement with President Presi-dent Wilson's message. Now the government gov-ernment is in full agreement with that message. Mr. Asquith also is In agreement agree-ment with it. "I therefore take it that the interpretation interpre-tation placed on the Marquis of ns-dow ns-dow no's letter here, in America and in France, both by supporters and opponents of the allied cause, and also in Austria a nd Gonna ny, was not in the least the interpretation the Marquis , of Lansdowne desired to give. I do not desire to force a controversy if none exists, but I might he forgiven for repeating President Wilson Wil-son and in saying that it was a great misfortune that the Marquis of Lansdowne Lans-downe did not carry out that intention." The premier also spoke on aerial war-fate, war-fate, declaring that the nations possibly would determine that this must be the last war in which air weapons are used, as they bring the perils and horrors of the battlefields to civilians at home who previously have dwelt In security. Baron' Rnthermere. the- new air minister, min-ister, in speaking after Pi emier Lloyd Georae. said: "Mv advisers have asked me to make a precise statement of our air policy. The question of reprisals comes first and foremost. fore-most. At the airhoard we are wholeheartedly whole-heartedly in favor of reprisals. "It is our duty to avenge t lie murder of innocent women and their children. As the enemy elect, therefore, pr he i an eve for an e" and a tooth for a tooth and in this respe-t we .-ml' strive Kr a complete and satisfying re'aliHimn. "Von Ludeii'iorff n; i ir.s this a war of the nations. snggs: ing t ' :-i : the i popula '. Ion cqual'y is a m:i rk for :.- bombs along with the T':gh:ir.e men. We deles; this docTrin ho.-uair i ' m h.- : grossly immoral: but. :i;.iin- for --i;r lives "and t h lives of our e. t-M ? n ;i r. d children, we will not consent to Its onesided one-sided application. The enemv lias to learn in this, as in the hirer 1'hr.cs. that outrages on the eiv.han population of t.'is country do not nay."' pnron Rot iiermere's statement ai lond;y cheered. I |