Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — Here’s The Price Kaiser Must Pay To Grasp Peace [ARTICLE]

Here’s The Price Kaiser Must Pay To Grasp Peace

In the midst of the ppace pourparlers that are in progress between the representatives of the Teutonic allies and the Bolsheviki government in Russia, the war alms of Great Britian and doubtless all of her allies have been concretely set forth in the house of commons by David Lloyd George, the British prime minister. The complete restoration of territory now in the hands of the enemy and compensation for the havoc have wrought, is the price that will be demanded for the laying down, of arms and the bringing about of peace. Great Britian did not seek territorial aggrandizement for herself or for any of her allies when she entered the war, Mr. Lloyd George said, but entered into the hostilities merely for the sake of her honor. As to Germany’s colonies, all of which are now in the hands of the entente, Mr. Lloyd George says their disposition must be determined at the peace congress. Jerusalem, however, the premier declared, would never be restored to the Turks. The statement of the prime minister came almost simultaneously with a report that the Teutonic allies intended to make peace proposals to the entente and that Russia had been requested to take similar steps and was endeavoring to sound Tier former allies in arms as to their requirements lor a cessation of hostilities.