The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-17
Fate of Germany Now Lies in
Hands of Her Peace Enjoys
Allied Powers Present Final Reply Which Must Be Accepted
Rejected-Cemenceau in Covering Note Strongly
Arrap s(.errnan Pove


Paris, June 1.-THE covering lets
ter submitted with the reply to Ger
man peace proposals from NJ. Glenn
enceau, president of the peace con-
ference, to Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau, president of the German
delegation, says:
1.-THE allied and associated powers
have given the most earnest consid-
Grafton to the observations of the
German delegates on the draft treaty
of peace. The reply protests against
the peace on the ground that 1t con-
| fiicts with the terms upon which the
armistice of Nov. IL, 1918, was signed
| and that it Is a peace Of violence, and
not a peace of justice. The protest
of the German delegation shows that
they fail to understand the position
in which Germany stands today. They
seem to think that Germany has only
to make sacrifices In order to attain
peace as If this were but the end
of some mere struggle for territory
and power. The allied and asso-
ciated powers, therefore, feel 1t nee
essary to begin their reply by a clear
statement of the judgment of the
world. which has been forged by
practically the whole of civilized
mankind.
I'm the view of the allied and as
ISOLATED powers, the war which be-
gan on Aug. /, 1914, was the greatest
crime against humanity and freedom
of the people that any nation calling
itself civilized has ever consciously
committed. For many years the rul-
ers of Germany, true to the Prussian
tradition, strove for a position of
dominance in Europe. They were not
satisfied with that prosperity and in
fluence to which Germany was enti-
tied and which all other nations were
willing to accord her; they chose that
they should be able to dictate and
tyrannize over subservient Eu-
rope. as they dictated and tyran- |
nized over subservient Germany. 4
Claim Might is Right.
an order to attain their ends they !
used every channel through which to
educate their own subjects in the
doctrine that might was right in in
ternational affairs. They never
ceased to expand German ornaments
by land and sea and to propagate
the falsehood that it was necessary
because Germany's neighbors We're
jealous of her prosperity and power.
"She sought to SOW hostility and
suspicion, instead of friendship, be-
tween nations. The Germans devel-
oped a system of espionage and in
trigue through which they were en-
abled to stir up international rebel
lion and even to make secret often-
sive preparations within the terri
tory of their neighbors, whereby they
might, when the moment came, sttike
them down with better certainty and
result They kept Europe in Ger
ment by threats of violence and hen
they found that their neighbors were
resolved to resist their arrogant will,
they determined to assert their pre-
in Europe by force.
AS soon as their preparations were
they encouraged a subser-
Went ally to declare war on Serbia
on forty eight hours notice. a war
involving the control of the Balkans.
which they knew could not be local
zed and which was bound to unchain
4 general war.
an order to make doubly sure, they {
'efused every attempt at concilia-
ion and conference, until ii was too
ate and the world war was inevita- :
Die. for which they had plotted and !
or which, alone among. the nations,
hey were adequately equipped and t
prepared. e
"Germany's responsibility, how
,ver, is not confined to having
damned and started the world war.
She is no less responsible for the
avage and inhuman manner in which
t was conducted. Though Germany
vas herself the guaranty of Belgium,
Germany violated the rules after a
olemn promise to respect the neu-
rality of this unoffending people.
Not content with this, they DELHI
rately carried out a series of pro-
niscuous shootings and burnings
With the sole objects of terrifying the
into submission by the
cry frightfulness of their action.
hey were the first to use poisonous
as, knowing the appalling suffering
entailed They began the bombing
nd long distance shelling of towns
he purpose of reducing the morale
f their opponents by striking at
heir women and children.
international Law.
"They commenced the submarine1
with its piratical challenge
, international law and its destruc-
ION of great numbers of innocent
assengers and sailors in midocean,
ar from succor. at the mercy of the
'inds and waves and the yet more
lthless submarine crews. They drove
of women and children
18th brutal savagery into slavery in
oreign lands; they allowed barbari-
es to be practiced against their
risoners of war, from which the
lost uncivilized people have recoiled.
The conduct of Germany is almost
neXampled in human history The
,rrible responsibility which lies at
err doors can be seen by the fact -.
rat not less than 100000 dead lie
uried in Europe, while more than
100000 others carry upon them the
violence of wounds and suffering,
ecause Germany saw fit to crafty
err lust for tyranny by resort to
ar
The allied and associated powers
elieve that they will be false to those
no have given their all to save the
eedom OF the world II they consent TO
eat war on any other basis than as
crime against humanity and right
This attitude OF the allied and as
'cisted powers was made perfectly
ear to Germany during the war by
ieir principal statesmen. II was de-
ned by President Wilson in his
'eech of April s. 1918. and explicitly |