Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-06-25

tectors OF the national and religion:
rights Of minorities. and asks com
mission to assess damages caused By
recent Polish disturbances in German
inhabited regions.
Occupation.
She demands, in words of bitter pro.
test, that all allied troops be with.
drawn within six months of the sign
ing of peace.
Negotiations.
She insists she has a right to oral
discussion of the practical application
Of the principles upon the acceptance
OF which by her and her enemies she
laid down her arms
saar.
Purely German territory" She
claims important industrial districts
beyond the coal mines is demanded
from her, but "even the cession Of the
mining district could not be admitted. .
She Is willing to guarantee supply of
coal, but the total coal computed to
exist in the Saar mines would repre-
sent a hundred times the maximum
France demands" Except for 6S years
under French rule, the population has
been attached to Germany for over a
thousand years. Reconsideration of
the whole question is demanded.
SchIeswio.
She charges the demarcation for a
plebiscite has been traced through
purely German territory and goes
further than Denmark herself wishes
to go.
Upper SiIesia.
CessiOn Cannot be demanded at
ALL" 1t is added that Upper Silesia
owes everything to Germany and Ger
many cannot dispense with Upper ST.
lesia, while Poland does not really
need it," Germany is prepared to cede
such parts as are truly Polish. In all
territories east and west, where ces-
sion is demanded, she says it must be
preceded by piebisclte with universal
suffrage administered under fair condi-
tons by neutral power after evacua-
ton of foreign troops.
West Prussia.
Germany is ready to cede to Poland
such west Prussian territories as are
indisputably Polish.
East Prussia.
Germany cannot consent TO the
severance of East Prussia, with a
German population of 100000, from
the German empire. A bridge must
be absolutely prepared.
Danzig.
This purely German town must re-
main within the German empire. Ger
many refuses to make it free city,
but is willing to make it and Koenigs-
berg free ports to give Poland access
to the sea.
AIsace-Lorralne.
The population alone should decide
whether it wants to belong TO France
or Germany or wants to be an indie
pendent state. "If France is to take
over the results of Germany's effort
she must equally take over proper.
tionate share in the German debt"
German Austria.
Germany cannot pledge herself to
oppose a possible desire of German
Austria to be united with her.
Colonies.
The treaty clauses are called "un-
just" Germany claims she has "a
natural claim to colonies from her
culture and undeniable colonial ac-
complishments.
Russia.
1t conflicts with a peace of right
and justice to demand from Germany
to recognize beforehand any treaties
which her present enemies may make
with the states which were formerly
part of the Russian empire.
Germany" says the reply, "has ex-
pressly accepted President Wilson's
IA points. and nothing else" BY elm
mating Germany from the worlds
trade, it is asserted. her enemies
might get rid of a troublesome com
petitor. but the world already impov-
erished by the war would become in
finitely poorer" She promises in her
contemporaries TO set an example
of disarmament, offering to give up all
naval and military weapons to the
minimum point required for police
work in maintaining law and order in
ternally.
Trial of Ex-kaiser.
"As 10 the trial of the ex-kaiser.
Germany cannot recognize the justi-
fication of such criminal prosecution.
which is not founded upon any legal
basis, or agree to the competence of
the special tribunal proposed, or the
ACCESSIBILITY of the surrender TO be re-
quested of the Netherlands.
"She cannot admit that a German be
placed before special foreign tri-
bunal, to be convicted as a conse-
Quence of an exceptional law promu.'
gated by foreign powers only against
him, on principles not of right, but of
politics, and TO be punished for an ac-
ton which was not punishable at the
time it was committed.
"Nor can she consent to a request
being addressed to Holland to surren-
der a German to a foreign power for
such unjustitiable proceedings.
AS TO the surrender of persons ac-
cused of violations of the laws and
customs of war for trial by military
tribunal even though proceedings have
already been begun by German courts.
| Germany is forbidden by her criminal
code to make such extradition of Ger
man subjects to foreign governments. "
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