The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
GERMANS HANDED ALLIES NOTE ON
 BALTIC SITUATION
Tells the Huns They Have
 Openly Defied the AL < lied and Associated Af Governments
sv Associated Press

By Associated Fress
 Paris, October 12.-Foliowing is
 the text of the note sent to the
 German government by the allied
 and associated powers regarding
 the evacuation of the Baltic prov
 fnces,
 .The allied and associated govern ments note the formally expressed pretensions of the German govern ,nent-note of October 3--to undertake and to pursue in most energetic manner the withdrawal of it's troops from the Baltic region and Lithuania.
 .sThey also consider as opportunate he measures decided upon by the Serman government for that purpose. But when the German government con ends that the action they nave taken must absolve them from the charge f having neglected to fulftll tAelr honorable obligations under the aruli- stice. 1t is necessary to point out that he orders of the German government 4ave notwithstanding repeated de- E hands and remonstrances on the part Jf the allied and associated govern nents, been so long delayed that the ierman government now claims to be practically powerless to enforce them.
 
 heir long delay has been designed Aalculated as it was to lead to the 'erv results which the German gov tnment now affect to depiore It lsems indeed impossible otherwise to kplain their refusal to recall General lon Der Goltz, who has been their of lrial instrument in creating the pres
 1t situation in open defiance to the Representations of the allied and asso- lated governments.
 WAS THRICE DEMANDED
 'Wly was the German recall, thrice de- landed. refused? Why was he (von der -oltz}, after being summoned to Berlin 1nly recently sent back deliberately to .he scene of his atrocities. except to com aete under order of his office, the orgaili- -ation, which now affords to the German rbvernment, the pretext taht the troops itherto paid, clothed and transported by .scna have passed out of their control?
 Has General Won der Goltz acted con ary to laeir instructions? If so, why sAs no; his characterization been pun seed, either by formal dismissal or i'll ty other way
 i'Unless some very much more satisfac- ry explanations of those matters than < ose hitherto afforded. are given by the esrman government, the allied and as- .iciated governments cannot admit the 9ntention that the German government 4, ve as they assert, continually made 4Is most energetic efforts to withdraw t,e German troops from the Baltic ties?
 According to recent Information re- /, ssved from Letvia, the situation has sud- 4 nly become more grave on account of tqe offenesive taken by Grnnan troops on Ctstobr g. Other troops have been violat ing the Courland- Lettish neutral zone and hsve bonbarded Lettish positions by arm
 ! t-e 1,xyo otr hxyy ric,r ssss shells They have threatened the city of fRiga ard brought about the formation in Courland of a German Russian gov etnment opposed to the local government already established. ' GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE Tn view of the situation the allied and associated governments maintain the principle of the full responsibility of the German government in the carrying out of the evacuation of the region and they mean to maintain the integrity of the coercive measures announced in the third telegram of September ?. as long l as the evacuation has not been under l taken and pursued with all desirable celerity. However for the purpose of encouraging the execution of the opera tion and the lending of assistance to the ] German government, the allied and asso- 1 ciated governments expect to send allied l representatives whose mission should consist of {a) receiving from the German government information regarding meas 1 ures decided upon by it as well as in proposing measures which the mission it. i, self may deem advisable; ib) in exercis- Hna on the spot and with all power of ac- 1 ton, effective control of the execution of said measures. The chairmanship of this allied commission should be vested in the general office appointed ba the allied and associated governments.l Only when that general officer has informed the supreme council of the allied and asso- eiated governments that opesations of evacuation are progressing normally can the stopping of measures provided for by
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