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Show MUST BASE PEACE ON STERN JUSTICE, SIR A. GEDDES SAYS LONDON, Dec. a. (British Wirier Service.) Sir Auckland Geddes, president of. the local government board ami minister min-ister of national service, in a public address ad-dress said that the line of policy advocated advo-cated by the coalition government: was a peace which, so far as tlie enemy powers pow-ers ..were concerned, should he based on stern Justice, and, so far as vtho.se men who planned and started the war were concerned, should be founded on insi'ice of the nature meted out in the hr-hst courts of the land. Such men as the' former for-mer German emperor, Enver Pasha and J the former rulers of Bulgaria and Aus-j tria won id be placed on trla 1 and if found guilty t heir lives would lie forfeited. for-feited. "Men guilty of unspeakable atrocities upon our prisoners and upon the civilian inhabitants of the Invaded land.-.." he I continued, "must stand trial and if they i are condemned must suffer death." |