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Show c- ! WINSTON SPENCER CHURCH- ILL, British niinistcr of mu- ; j ! rations, who announces the proposed l ; nationalization of railways and that ! j the supremacy of the navy must I 1 be maintained. j i 1 I,, j. '-" f. - , v V 1 V " Ml . N F ' MUST INTI NAVALDEFENSE Britain Does Not Want Helgoland, Winston Churchill Says. . DUXDEI0, Dec. 4 (By the Associated Press). Thc British naval authorities have decided that it will be unnecessary to demand the return of Helgoland to Great Britain from Germany, "Winston Churchill, the minister of munitions, announced an-nounced in a speech here tonight. Mr. Churchill also said the government had decided upon the nationalization of the railways. "S"e enter the peace conference," said Mr. Churchill during the course of his address, "with t he absolute determination determina-tion that no limitation shall be Imposed lo our right to maintain our naval defense. de-fense. We do if't intend, no matter what arguments and appeals are addressed to us, to lend ourselves In any way to any fettering restrictions which will prevent the British navy maintaining its well-tried well-tried and well -deserved supremacy." Winston Spencer Churchill's announcement announce-ment regarding the nationalization of the railways has stirred the greatest Interest in tho country. No details of the government's gov-ernment's policy have yet been made public. "I am sfill in the dark; J know no more than the newspapers have published," a prominent railway official told the Aaso-cia Aaso-cia l ed Press. The public is eagerly awaiting the specific spe-cific program to lie announced. ; The British representatives a I the peace conference will demand general I and absolute abolition of conscription throughout Kurope, A I r. Churchill fur- i ther announced. By Universal Service. T')Ui'l 10K. 1 lee. r. "We intend to make he Germans pay for the harm, .they have done to The nt termost farl b-ing b-ing they are capable of pay i tic," said Winston Churchill in his address here. With regard to Wilhelm Hohcnzollern, the speaker said: "We have, as far as Great Britain is concerned, decided that so far as our influence goes we shall demand his surrender. sur-render. Stern justice must jc meted out to him and his a i o 1 1 i p ! i i e . "We shall do our utmost to have his share in the responsibility f(,r ihe uri-eojialed uri-eojialed catastrophe tested to the lull before be-fore n tribunal of .iust Ice, "We shall also insist tha I those. Ger-ma Ger-ma n s u t ject in 1 h is cou n i ry or ot lnu's of German wiym who ha v- ' a bused our hospitality and who are interned, shall n,-L k io their coiinriy when peace, is signed, and. in my opinion, n. would not be right until ibe eoun'ry has again been consulted in Three or four gears' time i hat we reconsider The w bob- situation of alio wt nc ni her Germans lo come, into this country from outside. "Ton for ton of Kr, ,,v other -e, -untie-or any other liquid assets of which 1h(i ' Jermans ml qh t dl.-posc. u e, in end to I exact from them, subje, t.o (he co-id i -'tion that in evading tho;-,. v.-e must not : do anything that will m.:ure our own j trade. ! j "A :saoc- Lorraine musi - l-ivct, hack -i to the French without any n ua.l i ; icai jons 1 I of anv kind. ' "I'olanu mu.:l be i c- on.-t i t u t ed as a na t ion. j -Noli" of the German clonics Tur!- ! ;sh pr.-incev we have captured vvdl be , given back lo (irrniany or Turkev Tb'-y . must be deposed ,,f ni agr'e(-)nent with' ali other al!i"s in the p.-;ice c , 1 1 1 re 1 1 , e, : in aenfria ii'-e wuh die wishes of l!).'' native populai ions. ' |