Show ll LLOYD YD GEORGE FAVORS HUGHES I GERMAN P PLAN LA N Former Premier in Chief Address at Chicago Indorses Indorses Indorses In In- Proposal for Commission Commission Com Corn mission on Reparations BELIEVES AMERICA WHOLLY IMPARTIAL Declares It Is Fatal Mistake Mistake Mistake Mis Mis- take to Drive Germany Into Despair and Perhaps Irto Into Revolution CHICAGO Oct 18 By A. A P P.- P. His chief message to America Yo voiced Iced in which ho Indorsed the Hughes proposal for an international al reparations commission and anti re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered from his Indisposition of yesterday David Lloyd George war premier of Great Britain expects to resume his itinerary today Leaving Chicago for Springfield Ill III at 9 9 o'clock this morning his schedule calls calIs for a visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln and an address there and later with his family and party he ho will continue his Journey After completing his address last night before an audience of ot persons in the international amphItheatre amphitheatre amphitheatre theatre at the stockyards the British BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish statesman went immediately to his hotel where he had remained the tho rest of yesterday and retired ALMOST RECOVERED Members of his party said he had about recovered from the slight illness which kept him In his hotel yesterday esterday Little evidence of or his illness was apparent in the little Welshman when he delivered his address with his characteristic force and energy Brigadier General Charles G G. Dawes former director of the federal federal fed ted eral budget presided He lie pronounced Secretary Hughes Hughes' proposal that a commission of business busIness busi busl- ness experts examine Germanys Germany's capacity to pay a thoroughly practical practical practical businesslike proposal The Tho United Unite a States of America is absolutely impartial l. l he declared She She has no rio Interest In reparatIons She She- has certainly no mOTe more interest Interest- in Germany than anybody else She Is very well disposed toward France and therefore with a friendly countr country country coun coun- tr try absolutely Impartial and with a t r great fund of business knowledge at its disposal represented in a body of that kind it seems to me we would find a way to ascertain how much Germany can pay and onoe once we have done that then we could march together to compel her to pay It is a It fatal mistake to drive the people of ot Germany into despair he declared Revolution he ho said was not way the to get reparations He expressed regret that tho the polIcy policy pol pol- icy of Clemenceau l' l and Briand with regard to the Ruhr had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been adhered to by France RECALLS ARMISTICE I regret that after such a great and glorious victory there should be questions of ot this kind to retard the fruition of peace peace he said I re remember remember remember re- re member the da day of peace the day of the armistice It was a red dawn but It was as the tho dawn of peace and our hopes were high The ap- ap of the sky is full tull of men men- ace Storm clouds are gathering over Europe Europe he ho compared to 10 a ragged and starving man looking through the windows at tho the well dressed and well fed people inside The whole machinery of ot trade fade and commerce is torn and shattered Currency exchange the arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments meats which business men have made mado through the centuries for In Interchanging interchanging interchanging in- in f of commodities all are arc aron gone n I IThe The G German erman reparations problem j he declared to be one without parallel paral paral- id leI lel In history It is no use saying shying the country has great assets forests and lands I railroads and mines and factories I he said You cannot transfer those I factories and mines from one land to another But they say you can I Isell sell them But the receipts are paid I in marks the tho dividends are distributed distributed In ia marks marIes and until you Ou give 1 value alue to those marks you cannot I collect any debt Three men nien and two women charged with creating I a o disturbance by passing but hand handbills relating to the freedom of f Ireland were ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested previous to the meeting |