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Show ENGLAND SPURNS GERMANrS OFFER NEW PREMIER DECLARES ALLIES WILL FIGHT UNTIL PRUSSIAN-ISM PRUSSIAN-ISM IS OVERTHROWN. David Lloyd-George Announces That No Peace Will be Considered That Ignores Reparation, Restitution and Guarantees. London. David Lloyd-George, the now prime minister, announced In the hou.se of commons on Tuesday, December De-cember 19, that the first act. of his administration ad-ministration was the rejection of the proposal of the central powers for a peace conference. The new premier declared that before be-fore the allies could give favorable consideration to such an Invitation, they must know that Germany was prepared to accede to the allies' terms, giving "complete restitution, lull reparation, and effectual guarantees," guaran-tees," and that "to enter a conference confer-ence upon the invitation of Germany, proclaiming herself victorious, without with-out any knowledge of her proposals iwould be putting our heads into a noose with the end of the rope in liermany's hands." Mr. Lloyd-George asserted that at the moment Germany was penning the note, assuring her convictions as to the rights of other nations, she was dragging Belgians into slavery. He (announced that the note presented through Washington contained no proposal pro-posal of terms, but was a paraphrase of Chancellor von Bethinann-Holl-rweg's speech, and that the allies had separately concluded to reject it, although al-though they had informally exchanged views, and would -within a few days present a joint reply. Air. Astiuith, the former premier, seconded Mr. .Lloyd-George's decision deci-sion with even stronger words, and almost at the same moment Earl Cur-son Cur-son was informing the lords that the government would enter no conference that did not guarantee for Europe the free and independent existence of nations great and small. The Marquis Mar-quis of Crewe affirmed the approval of the members of the late government. govern-ment. The day was a doubly important one for 'the commons, because the new premier unfolded his program for -wide-reaching war measures, and Mr. Asquith closed the last chapter of his' nine years of leadership with an accounting of his -war stewardship. The principal feature of Mr. Lloyd-George's Lloyd-George's program is a measure for national service, matching Germany's latest scheme, whereby every citizen will be liable for enrollment, to perform per-form work, for which the authorities consider him best equipped. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, mayor of Birmingham, and a member of the famous family whose energy and business busi-ness capacity are rated high, will be director of the national service with civil and military directors responsible responsi-ble to him. |