PUNISHING ENEMY CRIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1918, Page 3

PUNISHING ENEMY CRIMES.

mWS& Wi IN'TERNATIONAIi-LAXV The British Attorney-General Sir Frederick Smith, speaking at Liverpool recently, dwelt on tlhe possibility of punishing German crimes. "I have given close attention," said the AttorneyGeneral, "to the subject of internatioul law, and I tell you plainly that there is an international law abundant warrant for the punishment, iboth in their persons and in ti'ieir purses, of proved and identified criminals. It has not been becoming, until tho hope of victory was recently iemed- upon the events in. the field, t» taik, of wj.-iii; we should d'.* when wictorj* K'.ma. Skit tlbose persous wS.o saa i» 'd'sr.f.iSsd wich nnltareally admitted «cte- of outrage are to eseape W;.iJi impinir'y is a w.ew o>" the ?ilua'.i'.a whiofe I- certainly liEa it-diffi«u'.-.to ac.« C'.'llt

if Wo arc toM. it will not be possible for Germany pay ait-'rviigli. aho fewsolf is from Uif. Hakimriks. There ar» xren-t assets in Germany. Ifc-te a Mittar -wfildi. is Sxrrfcvant froni one point of view 63 to whether those asr-ita aro plodpsd by the German tn-iba citizsnsof that country ivsio have supplied-the money for the war to ie carried-*!!!, Ths relevant answer on the sabjoet 'to the German Government is 'Yon Jnwo ®Hr« laged and destroyed Belgium md waged France, and your first obligation*&!to compensate Fs&tca, and "i>j,v; pay thosft wfet* .jjasi; vffls 'Che'r A> ,i