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1 6 Shopping Days ' ! ,- ' A-CMry ff I Uijiiop;. k -1 : v Until Christmas .Vly.vjj .'&9j) ! 3 I Until Chii.tnr... 'IT- -Ml VOL. 26, NO. 9. HIGK POINT, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1918. r: (By the INTKKXATIOXAL NEWS What Kind of a Peace the Allies Should .'. Demand of Germany ' (Just Terms to Penitent German) bilgi urn Most Be IndeniMlrtcd .', - The Terns of the Coming Peace Must Abolish AljUftVar Other. wise the Next War Will Wipe Out the Human Race From the v Pace of the EarttH This War Has Prepared the Way for the Form ' " - ation of a "League of Free. Nations." ' S - - N . . By RIGHT HON. HERBERT ASQUITH. (Former Prime Minister of Great Britain.) ' ' It is exactly seven months since the great German offensive was launched under the most favorable auspices, and no one would have been more surprised erMncreduious than General-udendorff If he- had been told at the end of last March ( when the only question .with 'him was whether h should take Paris or the Channel porta, or both, that : by the end of October he woul4 be fighting his hardest, and with every trembling . hops, to retain' his hold on the Hindenburg llne.ln two at least of - the "Eastern theatresPal estine and Macedonia our progress after long pause, is marked and significant;', indeed, there has been no campaign in the war more shil f ully conceived or more brilliantly carried out than that by which Gen eral Allenby has captured the ' best part qf two armies Jnd cleared the Turk out of tjie Holy Land. Unprepared to take the offensive In a war of aggression" we certainly were, , Unprepared wis, were also to tnl:e a lead ins pari a European land campaign in. competition with the gigantic4 armies ofthe Contin ental Pewers.' But we were not uu prepared ' eitlar for . our own de fense, or. for rendering invaluable help to any ally. At no time iathe history was the British navy better equipped, in ships, armament per - sonnel. During long years we spar ed no care and no money in main taining, against all possible rivalry, the aaval supremacy which is essen tial to the safety of these- islands the Gernran army, which, In obc and to the unity of Smplre. But few dience to the sacred , dut of self could have drerat of the part, the defence, was about to make, by the controlling and decisive part whith shortest route, a spring upon Paris, the navy could play Hin a world-j The rage and devastation which has wide war,, What have we seen these ; stamped the German invasion with four yero?'-f aii6emaif Heist itndylhg'inUiny--Belglum 'ilone is upon which so manf millions have been spent, and such vast ambitions and hopes were centered, is scaled I up in impotence in its home waters. The German flag is not to be seen on cruiser or merchant ship on any of the highways of the ocean. The whole naval activities 6f the enemy are confined to the piratical adven tures of ; .his submarines, -which prowl beneath the surface,, seking and to often finding their 'prey, in defiance both of law, and ' humanity, among innocent passengers or among inocent passengers or among the sick and wounded : and the nurses devoted to their care. The safe and rapid transport of troops, the supply of food and of , tho sinews of industry, both .to these islands and to the allies, the pro- gresive and effective constriction with an ever-tightening grip of the V outside-resources of the 'enemy these are the things which have enabled us for four -years to carry on- the war, and which in the long run, must bring us victory. ' ' The New World. I have never doubted that the . .' continued pressure of the allied re sources naval,' military and econ omte would jsrove In the long run ' to be lrrestistible.lt Is true that we have test the help of Russia, but the New World has stepped In to llght for freedom In the o"d, and It j gration, In order that she may fid .. was undoubtedly the need for strik- j political ' and (economic compen Irig a decisive blow before America satiott in the east for the failure of could throw her full weight on the.ber attack on the liberties of the ide of the Allies which led the Ccr- J west. There are in Russia herself Xtnan high command:: to nndortake, sporadic centers and rallying-polnts vthe grandoise and Ill-starred offen: the Czecho-Slovaks are waging a gal sive. But the more' confident l)ur ' lent fight against, the,, hordes of fith In ultlmatae victory, the more ! German . and Austrian prisoners; it' behoves as to be on our guard there hs been " In Murmansk, at that the unexampled , sacrifices we have made are not wasted or" frit- . tered away..' They will be unless v can secure what I called a year j ago a clean-peace, and the setting up. of a new international policy. - which i will chain up for ever the furies of war. ".-.. ' ' 1 will say a few words on each of thesowo points. .What do we mean by a. clean peace? We mean- a peace which attains for' the world the objects for which we have been . fighting, which is clean in thesense .that it cleans the state; and clean also in another and higher sense, that it does not offend, the con sciene either for the victory or of mankind.. For you have jto clean peace If you have a continuance of, veiled war. v A. peace which is de eigneq to mmct pprmanpnt humilla BCREAU, Inc., Boston, Mass.) tlon Jo dtsmeniber what is by na ture and affinity uuited, to leave open woundsi such a peace;, as all history shows, is at best but a pre carluus armibttce, and is not worth the parchment on which it is en grossed. The Germans have given us an object-lesson at Brest-Lltovsk of what a peace should not be. , Peace a real peace Is so im measurably the greatest blessing that could befall humanity, ' that neither honest, misunderstanding nor deliberate misrepresentation and concealment should be allowed to stand in Its way. I suspect that there ,1s abroad at this moment a good deal of both. Our objects lae (as we think) been plainly stated .both her and in America. The oftener and more clearly they are restated jthe better. But, let me, without reiterating a catalogue rj( pyitifi, take two lyplcal cases, tin; one from west, the other from the cant. IM u first take th f-' miliar but crucial case 'of Belgium. We know that Germany .is quite im penitent about Belgium:'v "Only we defend ourselves did we invade Bel gium,' violating the most solemn obligations in deference to what this pupil of St. Augustine consid ers the higher law of self-refence. j The repetition of this (and threadbare fiction monstrous is accom- j panted, not for the first time, by ' the avowal if only she would give a right of way through her terri tory, "and a jumping off ground, to to blame, and Belgium must bear the consequences. There is no case piled, for indemnity or reparation; here, as Count Hertling clearly Inl and this conies from a' statesman who is at this momen t engaged, with the, connivance of the Bol shevist governmeht, '4 in exorting 300 million pounds from Russia on wW one of his colleagues calls a carefully adjusted calculations of German claims! , Trogcdj of Russia. Belgium, you may say, is an old story; so let me go farther east to Russia. That great country, which has contributed so' much to the intellectual and spiritual wealth of mankind, and which in the first two years of the war was a bulwark of strength to the allied cause, ex hibits at this. moment" one of the most tragic spectacles in historyr tts stupendous unity, which In the past has weathered so tnany storms, 1s for .the .moment torn nd riven in to discordant tragments. Moscow and Petrograd, the ancient and the modern capitals, are being dominat ed and ravaged by cut-throats and 1 criminals. The autocracy is dead ; i the Duma is dead; Bolshevism is tottering ' Into a dishonored grave, Germany is'tnaklng the most of her ; opportunity to exact so-called In ( demnitles and to develop dlsinte- Archangel, in east Siberia a tardy perhaps a ; necessarily tardy inter vention of the allies. -That inter- ventlon is justified and can only be justified -by a purpose which is in conformity with their setled poli cy In, the war, not to dictate to Rus sia how shre shall be governed; not (as the. Germans aim at doing) ol evploit her for the profit of others; but to give her a free chance when hef Internal fever has run Its coihrse to become the mistress of her, own future, and, " under -,whatever form of government she 'pleases, - to re sume her place and her authority among the great powers of the world. . . r i '.',, v I have taken these two. examples to show the Austrians and allies that- the ntn.tt. which we nmn -ae. - lcept Is onn that fcuni-nntflo to nn - tions,. small , or great, security against sinister and predatory am bitions and the full right of self- determination. 1 , v. Let me add that in the official statements made' to the'' Reichstag recently, the vlce-Chncellor, Herr von Payer, not only adheres to the i Brest-Lltovsk , and supplements treaties, .but expressly refused to submit them to the Peace Confer ence. . In this connection he advises his countrymen "not entirely to for get the old saying. 'Try to 'hold .what you have. " If this were to be re garded as the last word of Germany it might well fill those who hope for peace with daspairr Let us trust that it is the last word, not of Ger many,' but of a dying era of mili tary -and bureaucratic dominance. A League of Nations. , 1 come now to my second point The new International policy. A great deal has already been said and written about the league of nations. There has recently been formed among us a ''League of. Free Na tions association," which is pro moted by men of all political parties and I wish at this stage, if I may, to repeat here one or two points I have already submitted to them They are both negative and positive. Negatively, the proposed league does not aim at or involve the sup pression or curtailment of the pa-! litlcal Independence of tha consti tuent, states. ' Still less does it seek to oWU'.miv, or to fuse" the national . 1 Jt I ..i.l it. : . 1. - ! s peupieo wim i compose tnore states. Eacn wun roniinue" to pursue nts own line of flf development, and to contribute Its special gifts, or faculties, or orvice, to. the common stock of mankind: Postively, It seeks to do for the community of nations what law and " opinion have already done for civilized societies; to abolish war as a mode of settling disputes. For this purpose it must equip Itself with the machinery for intervention and conciliation, and for judicial ar bitrament, in all international dif ferences. In the last resort its de cisions will be armed with the sanc tion of the common will,- and if need be of joint coercive action. It will become in time the clearing hous of discussion and negotation between states, through -which - covenants and treaties wijr pass' before they take their place upon the interna tional utatue-book. It will open its dors and offer a seat at its council tab(le from time to time to all states who can give an earnest of their loyalty to its purpose and its spirit. It will take under its pro tection, ,nds secure against aggres sion and' selfish evpoitation, the smaller states, and the backward and unorganized races 'and territor ies of the world. It will seek by all legitimate and pacific methods to ex tend both the arear and the effect tiven'ess df Its operations, and will be free to treat as outside the comity of nations such states as still adhere to militarism and the rule of force. Scheme Not Utopian. This Is'a scheme not so Utopian as it still sounds to many-peopiu. The war has been in more ways than ne (to adapt an old phrase) an evangelic preparation for such a league. In the first place, 'by its' revelation of itho infinite and still not fully developed potentialities of the application of science to the machinery of destruction,- has already- done a long way to convince the world that waf, -under modern conditions, is becoming form of in sanity and suicide. 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