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Show TO LIMIT OF CAPjCITI Lloyd George Also Declares De-clares Submarine Pirates Pi-rates and Devastators Must Be Punished. Must See That Crime of Great War Is Never Repeated; Kaiser's Offense Of-fense Is Indictable. NEWCASTLE, England, Nov. 29. Germany must pay the cost of tin -war to the limit of her capacity, Premier Lloyd George declared In a speech here today. The submarine pirates must be punished, pun-ished, the premlej- added, end whoever devastated the lands of another country ought to be responsible for it. Referring to the culpability of tho authors au-thors of the war, Mr. Lloyd George said the government intends that the investigation investi-gation to be conducted should be a perfectly per-fectly fair, but a stern, one, and that it should go on to its final reckoning. WILL MAKE INHUMAN BOCHES RESPONSIBLE. "I mean to see that the men who did not treat our prisoners humanely be made responsible," the premier declared. He added that he did not wish to pursue a policy of vengeance, but declared: "We have got so to act that men in the future who feel tempted to follow the example of the rulers who plunged the world into war will know what is waiting for them at the end." Germany, Mr. Lloyd George said, would not be allowed to pay her indemnity by dumplngj cheap goods in this country. Lloyd George, dealing with the question ques-tion of the responsibility for the invasion of Belgium, said the British government had consulted some of the greatest jurists jur-ists of the kingdom and that they unanimously unani-mously and definitely had arrived at the conclusion that in their judgment the former German emperor was guilty of an Indictable offense, for which he ought to be held responsible. The British prime minister sn id the (Continued on Page Three.) IHUNS MUST- PAY FOR WAR Tfl LIMIT I (Continued from Page One.) victory of the entente allies had been due ! ti ceaseless valor of their mon and that 1 it would he a lesson to anybody who, in the future, thought they, as tho PruH-, PruH-, sian war lords hoped, "could overlook 1 thl.s little Isiand in their reckoning." "Wo are now approaching tho peace conference," the premier continued. "The price of victory is not vengeance nor retribution. It is prevention. First of i all, what about those people whom we have received without question for years to our shores; to. whom we have given equal rights with our own sons and daughters, and who abused that hospitality hospi-tality to betray the land, to plot against the security, to spy upon it and to gain such information as enabled the Prussian Prus-sian war lords to inflict, not punishment, but damage and injury, on the land that had received them as guests? Never again!" NO SEPARATE JUSTICE FOR GUILTY EMPERORS. Lloyd George said the interest of security se-curity and fair play demanded that it should be made perfectly clear that the people who acted in this way merited punishment for the damage they had inflicted. The second question was the question of indemnities, tho premier added. In every ev-ery court of justice throughout the world the party which lost has had to bear the cost of the litigation. When Germany defeated Prance she established the principle prin-ciple and there was no doubt that the principle was the right one. Germany must pay the cost of the war up to the limit of her capacity. "There is a third and last point," continued con-tinued Lloyd George. "Is no one to be made responsible tor the war? Somebody Some-body has been responsible for a war that has taken the lives of millions of the best young men of Kurope. is not any-ono any-ono to be made responsible for that? If not, all I can say is that if that is the case there is one justice for the poor, wretched criminal and another for kings and emperors." Lloyd-George declared in conclusion: "L mean to see that the men who did not treat our prisoners with humanity are to be made responsible. I want this country to go to court with a clean conscience, con-science, and she will do so. There is not a stain on her record. We w(l( not bo afraid to appear before any tribunal. "We have got so to act now that men in the future who feel tempted to follow the example of the rulers who plunged the world into this war will know what is awaiting them at the end of it. We shall have to see that this terrible war, .which has inflicted so much destruction on the world: which has arrested the course of civilization and' in many ways put it back; which has left marks on tho minds, upon the physique and the hearts of myriads in 'many lands, that this generation will not see obliterated we must see by the action we take now, just, fearless and relentless, that it is a crime that shall never again be repeated in the history of the world." The premier, defending Unionist members mem-bers of the cabinet, said he would trust those men'who for two years had helped him to carry out great and progressive measures until he saw a better reason than he did now for suspecting them. Asked "What about free trade?" the premier added: "I am prepared to examine every problem, prob-lem, to cast aside any prejudices or preconceived pre-conceived ideas, and examine them purely pure-ly upon the facts as the war has revealed re-vealed them to us." |