PUNISHING GERMAN CHIMES.

Marlborough Express, Volume LII, Issue 285, 20 November 1918, Page 3

PUNISHING GERMAN CHIMES.

ROW^R IN INTERNATIONAL

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Jlhe British Attorney-General Sir Fiederic-i Smifch, speaking at Liverpool recently, dwelt on the possibility oi punishing: German criniOvS. "I have given close attention," said the Attorney-General, "to the subject of international kvv, and I tell you plainly that thorj is in international law abundant warrant for the- punishment, both in their persons and in their purses, of proved and identified criminals. It has nob bee a becoming, until the hope of victory was recently formed upon tho events in the field, to talk of what we should do when victory came. Tirit tho.se persons who can be identri^d witii universally admitted acts of outrage are to escape with impunity is a view of the situation which I certainly should find it difficult to jk-lvtk.

"We are told it,will not be possible for Germany to pay indemnities, although she herself is demandi.r.'----£300,000,000 from thi liolsh-.nkn? There are great assets in Germany. It is a matter which is irrelevant from one- point of view as to whether those assess are pledged by tho German Government to "the citizens of that country who havo supplied tlu money for. the war to be carried en. The relevant answer ou the subject to the German Government is. 'You have pil!-ig(>d and destroyed Belgium and ravaged France, and your first obligation is to compensate Belgium and then France, and then pay thoKtl who put up the. -money to enable- you to commit those outrages.' "