MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

9 RM*i MINISTER'S STATEMENT.

TOE LOSERS MUST PAY.

WAK INSTIGATORS TO BE

PUNISHED.

London, Not. 29. Mr. Uoyd George, in a speech at NewMid: "We gave equal rights to fca Germans, whu abused our hotplotting and betraying our se•nrity, but never again. Persons guilty ej such acta merit punishment. The I*lm |>artv must pay; Germanv must m W tl.c limit of her capacity. WhatMvr tH«" happen she will not be allowto pt> by dumping, thus wrecking our i*Aut*ies.

someone is held responsible tt* war which has taken millions beat young men of Europe it Will fl#an that there is one justice for the matched criminal and another for Ki«P and Emperors. Whoever plotted the wW outraged international law and huHnKy and ought to be held relit s.k>yd G«©f« ftked: "What wiU you 4# with Mm?" There were many ■hoot* of ,f gang him'' and ' Shoot kim."

Mr. Lloyd George added: "We must ate by the action tyken now, justly, fatrifffly and relentlessly, that this aim| will not be repeated in the history g( the world."—Aus. NX Cable Am*

PUNISHMENT, NOT vengeance;

EX4IfPL£ TO BE MADE OF RULERS.

TOgO PLUNGED THE WORLD IN WAR.

&&IBEC GUILTY OF INDICTABLE

OFFENSE.

"Keceived Dec. 2, 7.15 p.m. London, Nov. 29. Mt. Lloyd George added that he ia'tcni{fd to see that the persons who inhtunaaly treated our prisoners were held ratwwible. He did not wish to pursue a pQHty of vengeance after the war, bat we piqst now make an example of those mien who plunged the world into the

-ms intended to make a fair, hut •terp, ttvettigation regarding the authorship Of the w»r, and we must pursue it tp the final reefcqnijig. Th submarine piracy must be pun*Uo those responsible for the deIti&iniißg the responsibility for the ioruioti of Belgium, gome of the greatest jurists mtanimonrty advised the Govfrnineat that the Kaiser was guilty of an indictable offence, for which lie oygkt to be held responsible—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

JUNG GEORGE TO VIS|T

BELGIUM.

JtARSHAL FOCH IN ENGLAND.

London, Not. 29.

The Sing will visit Belgium before referaiu to Rngfeod. M. Clemenceau and Marshal Jfaefe wfll arrive in tendon ok Onjttiy.-Ara.-yjZ. Gsble Aam.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

fBOQFBOTS OF SINN FEINEES.

London, 17« v. 29.

*e <Hnim Dublin correspondent says Alt 31 Nationalise iiave declined UphiHwii for tke'eleetiou. The Bian Mi*r> ten seemed a walk-over in tke OWitin at Deny and Cork. It is ruatnd Sist if the Sinn Feinero impriaoned i» England should to released tiw majmity will lie nominated for cmaiitoqefet—Tiroes.