Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-04
HUNS SEEK ENTIRF'
RECAST Of PAIi
Demand Allies Quit Rhine; win
to Cut Armament.
FIUME QUESTION IS SETTLE
Reliable Information Says That
Agreement Also Has Been ReachsI
on General Adriatic Situation
Except Economic Arrangements,

Paris, May 29.-The question {
Fiume and the southern territOT
boundaries of Austria has been So
tied by the allied council, accordh {
to the best information here.
An agreement also has BED
reached, it is stated, on the gener
Adriatic questions, except regardn
economic arrangements. Thus all te
ritorial questions will be presented
the Austrians Friday in the propose
terms.
The matter On Preparations will CON
up for consideration later.
Hun Counter-Proposals.
London, May 29.-The German cOul
er-proposals to the allied peace tern
were published in Berlin, and ID
change Telegraph dispatch from Cd
penhagen says.
The reply asserts the willingness d
Germany to reduce her armamentS d
q greater extent than demanded by lid
allies.
Germany, the reply says, refuses d
accept the punishment terms fixed b
the peace treaty, and it is declarei
that the allies cannot both accuse and
sentence Germans guilty of respOna
bility for punishable acts.
More Counter-T erms.
Berlin, May 29.-Germanys counter
proposals to the terms of the peaG
treaty include the following points, ac
cording to an unofficial summary avail
able here:
Germany offers to disarm all Of he
battIeships on condition that part q
her mercantile fleet be restored to hel
She proposes that there. be no terri
torial changes without consultation 0
the populations affected.
The cession of upper Silesia and tn
claims to East Prussia, West PrusSi
and Mcneil are emphatically rejected
1t is stipulated that Danzig sha
become a free port and the River Wis
tula neutralized.
Quit Occupied Zones.
Occupied territory is to be evacuate
within six months.
If the league of nations is estat
lished with Germany as member, Gel
many shall continue to administer he
colonies, in accordance with the priI
cipIes of the league, as its mandatOT
Germany offers to pay $5,000,0OOW
in gold by the year 1926 as indemnity
and to- make annual payments froI
1927 onward to a total not in excess
S25, 0OO,OOO,O00 in gold.
The contemporaries in the OpeniD
section will argue for the existence
Germany's contractural right to
peace based on President Wilson's
points, because the entente natiOT
agreed to a peace ON that basis, al
neither Mr.. Wilson nor the represent
tives of any other allied governmel
have since demanded that peace be e
tablished on any other basis.
Will Cite Contradictions.
The second section will deal Wi
the contradiction between the draft
the treaty and previous assuranc
from entente statesmen and the &c
eral ideals of international right.
The contemporaries will decla
that the terms of peace completely
more the fact that Germany has
placed an "imperialistic and irrespO
sible government" by a strictly dem
cratic one, and that Germany in h
proposals for a league of nations hi
adhered to the principle of the limit
ton of ornaments.
at would be difficult to see" Oh
section reads, "what different cont
lions could have been imposed up(
an imperialistic government. The 81
emn assurances of France, Great b
tain and President Wilson that Il
peace would be a peace of right, al
not of violence, have not been kel
especially regarding territorial que
tons"
The reply complains that might .
fore right" dominates the whole ALI
treaty.