Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-20
ENEMY GIVEN /
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FINAL TERMS
TO END WAR
Allied Armies Ready to Move
Eastward Unless Accept
ance Is Prompt.
FOE MUST SIGN BY MONDAY
Justice for 100000 Dead is Demand
ed-UItimatum Is Accompanied
by Very Strong Indictment of
Prussian Brutality.

PruSSian Brutality.
Paris, June 1.-THE big tours"
last word about peace terms was
handed to the German delegation
shortly before seven O'clock Monday
evening. It's delivery was delayed by
several hours wrangle over one of
the chief concessions civilian control
of the occupied Rhine districts. Again
Frances Tiger" won his point after
long and fiery debate. The conces-
sion was stricken from the amended
document.
Immediately upon receipt of the
document Count Won Brockdorff Rant
Eau, president Of the German peace
delegation, left by special train for
7Yeimar. There he will submit them
to President Ebert who, in turn. will
lay them before his eabinet-of
which Rantzau, as foreign minister, is
member-preparato to reading
them In the national assembly. That
body, according to sI recent news
from Germany, is 10 decide on the
final ives" or mo"
CIemenceau Lashes Germans.
With the revised treaty Paul Datas-
Ia, secretary of the peace conference,
handed Count Won Brockdorff- Rant
Eau 4,500-word covering letter,
written by Clemenceau. it is a bitter
denunciation of Germany's pickering
attitude, stingjng reeapitulation of
her war crimes, an explanation of the
treaty notifications, and-an ultima
tum. 1t tells the Germans fatty that
no further attempts at bargaining will
be tolerated; that they must answer
Eyes" or mo" and do so within five
days.
This means that by six o'clock this
coming Saturday evening she. must
notify the powers without any IFS"
and butts" and 'howevers," whether
she will or Will not sign,
After that notification she will have
three additional days OF grace in
which to afiix her signature to the
treaty. If her answer Saturday is
yes the diplomatic and ceremonial
machinery will be set in motion for
tne greatest green-table event in his
tory, and the world will have peace
not later than week from tomorrow.
If she says no" FIVE days hence, the
peacemakers win lay aside. their pens
and tell Foch to go ahead. His sword
is sharp and half unsbeathed. ready
for the coup de grace" He would
promptly inform the Germans by wire
less that the arnistice is off and the
war will be on again beginning at six
O'Clock Tuesday night. June "a. The
three fateful days between Saturday
and Tuesday are the last in which the
Germans may choose between utter
militaro-economic subsection and
peace.
In Clemenceau's ''take-it-or-leave-it''
letter he admits that the treaty is Il
hard one, but he adds that it's hard
ness is fully justified by Germans
course in plunging the world into the
abyss of war and by her methods dur
ing the conflict. He tells them prac.
tically in so many words that, having
Embossed the world calamity. they
must suffer for 1t.
The revised treaty of peace contains
assurance of membership In the
League of Nations ain the early flu
'ture," provided Germany fultills hel
obligations.
This is considerable concession
though it does not meet the German
demand for admittance to membership
Immediately upon the signing of peace
The new document meets the Ger
man demand for cooperation with a
German reparatioGs commission.
1t also puts the powers on record ms
willing to receive suggestions for dis.
charging the German reparational OBJ
legation.
This opens the way to oral discus.
lsions the Germans asked for-but not
until peace is signed. 1t removes the
grounds on which the Germans
charged infringement on their sover-
seignty aud national pride, in the
ireparational transactions.
Another change in the treaty text
,provides for the plebiscite in upper
tSilesia for which the Germans had
asked. 1t also guarantees coal from
that province presumably in the
4levent that the plebiscite goes against
iGernany).
Drop Kiel Canal Question.
The original proposal of an inter.
national commission for the admins