Evening star., 1919-03-13
LLOyDGEORGE SET
HUN ARMy'S
Terms of Disarmament to Be
Announced to War Coun-
Gil Today.
NAME GERMAN DELEGATES

LONDON, March 13.-The Daily
Telegraph says: To-day is to see the
elimination of the most notable epi-
sode reported so far in the four
month history of the peace confer
ence. The supreme war council will
formally announce today the text of
the terms of German disarmament,
and abandonment of conscription is to
be required of Germany.
THAT is the destruction of German
militarism. Yet it is an adpitted
truth that until a few<uasv agg moth
ing so bold and decisive wssin con-
temptation in the inner circle of the
conference.
"This clean cut to the root of inter
national trouble is the work of one
man, and we are justified in saying
that if that man had not been the
prime minister of Great Britain at
this moment the chance would have
been missed.
Assailed at Home.
ut happens, ironically enough, that
at the time when the British prime
minister was taking the initiative to
bring this about at the conference his
government at home was still being
fiercely assaiied for its proposal to
maintain diminished force on con-
scription basis until the results of
rJ@l.
opposition is now faced with the fact
that the prime minister has taken the
lead in a course of policy which will
have more effect in doing away with
than all their denuucia-
tions million times multiplied.
The new army scheme propounded
by Mr.. Churchill is necessarily and
ayowedly an interim scheme. The con-
scription element in tits a dimi inish-
ing quantity, which viii soon vanish
and which does not impose
compuision upon single additional
man beyond those already with the
colorS."
Latin-Americans' Claims.
PARIS. March 1s.-Estimates SO far
received from Latin American gov
ernments of damages incurred in the
war indicate that the total bill for
i u
be approximately s1.009.960, 900. The
ciaius are confined largely to ships
sunk by the enemy. but sofpa OF the
Latin American count ries are seekiilg
the repa xnent OF Hae1Rey deppRitea "A
Be rain and HAfnnse q haiIks aifdE Ssof.
fiscated bysermany, especially. Bra
I'll, whose citizens habItually mann
tanned large accounts in Germany be-
cause of the coffee trade
Two new delegates to the confer
encx, from Latin America are expected
in Paris soon. They are Joaquin
Men dez of Guatemala and policarpo
Bonl,iia of Honduras.
Hun Delegates Named.
WEIMAR, March 12 fby the Associ-
ated Press) The German delegates
to the peace conference will be Count
Won Brockdorff-Rant the foreign,
DR.. Eduard David, majority
socialist and first president of the
national assembly; DR. Adoiph War
burg; DR.. Adolph Muller. minister to
Switzerland, Prof. Wahher NJ. A.
Schuecking of Marburg University,
and Herr Geisberg. minister of posts
and telegraph in the Prussian minis
try.
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau is a
graduate of the German imperial Dip
lomaticy and has been foreign minis
ter since the resignation OF DR.. Solf.
DIR. David is a member of the German
without portfolio. The iden-
tity of DR.. Adolph Warburg is uncer-
tain.
DIR. Muller formerly was director of
the electric accimulator works at
Berlin. and in July, 1915, received an
honorary degree from the University
of Hanover for his work in develop
ing the efficiency of German subma-
rines.
Prof. Schuecking late In 1914 pub-
fished a letter blaming Russia for fha
European war. Herr Geisberg is a
in the German govern
ment.
Hun Press Opposes Terms.
BERLIN, March 12 thy the Asso-
ciated Press s).-Reports from Paris ia
the effect that the peace treaty will
provide that Poland shall have Danzip
and that buffer state shall be formed
along the Rhine have stirred up the
German press, both conservative and
radical.