WAR COSTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18600, 30 December 1920, Page 5

WAR COSTS.

LENIENT TREATMENT OF GERMANY.

INFORMATION SOUGHT.

By Telegraph—Press AssoeistiATi— CopyTighL Australian and N.Z. Cable Ansocistion. (Received December 29, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, December 29. Mr L. J. Miixse, in an article in the “ National Review,” says that Mr Hughes, strongly backed by Lord Sumner, made an earnest fight during the negotiations preceding tlie armistice for the principle that Germany should pay British war costs, but fortified by the vigorous support of President Wilson, tho American delegates ill an informal conference persuaded Mr Lloyd George, Signor Orlando and M. Clemenceau to oppose Mr Hughes’s and Lord Sumner’s contention. The “Morning Post,” commenting on Mr Maxse’s article says that the British public are entitled to know exactly Mvhy Air Lloyd George gave away the British case and supported President Wilson in the line that damages should be paid by Germany on, the narrowest possible scale.