Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
ARMIES TO march,
BLOCKADE At ONCE,
IF HUNS DECLINE
Council of Four Ends Lab0rS
and Pact Will Go to
Germans Tomorrow.
ALLOWS Them UNTIL
JUNE Fl TO ANSWER
Confidential Reports From Berlin
Make Outlook for Signing
Modified" Terms Bright. :

BASLE, June IA (by the Associ-
ated Press)-The ministers Of all
the German states have been sum-
moned by telegraph to Weimer to
Jointly consider the German answer
to the allies.
PARIS. June IA (by the Associated
Press).-The council of four finished
its labors today on the reply to the
Germans, which will go to Count Won
Observation-Disclosures Monday. The
. last day permitted them for accept
ance or rejection Of the treaty is June
n.
If the German reply is in the mega
tive, the allied armies will start to
march into Germany the following
day, and a new blockade will be i'm
mediately effective.
II the Germans express their will
ingness to sign the document, the
ceremony will probably take place
Monday in the Hall of Mirrors at Yer
eailles.
Will Not Advise Smaller Powers.
The changes in the text of the
treaty will not be communicated in
ers of the interallied conference. The
council of four. however. received this
Afternoon the delegates of Poland
and Czechoslovakia as the two small
er states chiefly interested and out
lined to them the councils determine
lions.
Belgium. for some reason, was not
represented. The four had before this
placed their approval on the new
financial clauses and the remaining
sections of the treaty and had sent
the report thus approved to the draft
ing committee, which will work all
day tomorrow and probably good
part Of Monday preparing the reply
to the Germans.
Will Explain Changes.
The communication win consist of
. letter Of transmission of about $500
words explaining in detail the motives
Of the council and giving detailed
statement of all changes made in the
original draft.
1t is doubtful whether the complete
new text will be in print in time to
be handed to the Germans when Sec
rotary Dutasta or one of his aids
goes to Versailles to transmit the re-
ply to Won Brockdorff- Rantzau with
out any formal ceremony.
The five days period accorded the
Germans includes the three days
notification required for the denunci-
alton of the armistice.
Outlook for Signing Bright.
The latest confidential reports from
Berlin are distinctly more optimistic
regarding the chances of the German
signature of the treaty. The leading
German statesmen have abandoned
their earlier attitude of uncompromis-
ing refusal to sign the terms unless
radically altered. and are now saying.
instead Of I'VE won't sign unless"
the far milder and more reasonable
I'VE will sign #"
The council of four has not granted
all the concessions the Germans have
suggested, but perhaps have gone far
enough to make it possible for the
Germans to climb down gracefully
and accept such concessions as they
have obtained.
Count Won Bernstorff, for example.
is quoted as admitting that Germany
can sign IL admitted to the league of
nations. given representation on the
PREPARATIONS commission and granted
a p1ebiscite in the disputed regions of
the eastern frontier.
Hard to Swallow.
It is thought in conference circles
here that concessions on the first two
points are sufficient to permit the
present government to swallow these
sections OF the treaty. though with
wry face. and that the grant of a
plebiscite in Silesia but not in West
Prussia or Danzig may ultimately be
accepted on the principle Of half a
loaf is better than no bread. Matthias
Erzberger, head Of the German armi-
stice commission, has added to Won
Bernstorff's three points two others.
bearing on the surrender of the
former German emperor and Ger
many's acknowledgment Of her guilt
for the war. But the objections on
these points of honor are not believed
to be insuperable.
The reports indicate that the treaty
will not be signed by the delegation
as 1t is at present constituted. but
that this delegation will be replaced
by new delegation representing the
three majority parties In the parlia-
ment.