Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-17
NEARING THE END.
Peace Conference About Ready TO
Close up Shop.

The stage is set for the closing
scenes of the peace congress, so far as
the Germans are concerned, according
to an Associated Press summary OF
the situation in Paris. Within rev
hours It is expected that the Germans
will be told the terms, brought down 10
an ir~educible minimum, on Whicn the
Allied and associated governments are
ready to take up relations on peace
footing with the new German republic
The period of five days after dehv-
ary of the reply of the Allies to the
German contemporaries has peen nS-
ed for the signature of rejection or the
treaty.
Germany is to be allowed an army
of 100000 men for three years. inns
is one of the changes in the peace
terms which has been sedulously kept
secret.
The reason for this doubling of the
previous number of effectives Is the
impossibility Of adjusting the armies
of Austria, Poland, Czecho- SloVakia ana
other new states proportionately 10
the already arranged lOO,Oo0 men lor
Germany.
A general reduction of armaments
is to be negotiated Immediately.
many's admission to the league of ma
tions is set for the near future" Pre-
vjous dispatches had indicated that the
reply to Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau
would merely state the conditions con-
sidered necessary for Germany's entry
in the league such as fulfillment OF
the treaty terms and of Germanys IN
ternational obligations, including re-
parations and the payment OF the Al
lied claims.
important for Germany as well as for
the Allied countries, Is a plan outlined
in the answer to the German counter
1rorosals. This provides for civil
rather than military rule OF the region
on the left bank of the Rhine. Under
the proposals the territory Will De
piaced in the hands of commission
consisting of one member of each OF
the great powers, thus rendering un-
necessary the maintenance OF a large
occupational force. AS Germany. un-
der the terms of the armistice, STANDS
obligated to pay the expenses OF the
military occupation of the Rhineland.
the sums saved to her by the substl-
tuition of civil for military administra-
ton would be enormous.
Austria's reply to the treaty pre-
sented to her delegates Is due tues
dav but as the treaty in its present
form lacks many important clauses. 1t
Is probable that a request for further
time would be favorably considered by
the peace conference. The council OF
four will devote part of Monday to
consideration of the remaining sec
tions of the Austrian treaty and efforts
are to be made to whip the completed
document into form as speedily as pos
sible.
Bolshevik and anarchistic disorders
are reported from Switzerland. Two
persons were killed and II wounded
according to officials in serious up
risings in Zurich in which the pre-
lecture was stoned, the hall OF justice
looted and the archives burned.
A plebiscite for upper Silesia will be
taken within six to IS months.
A clause dealing with the protec-
ton by the league of nations of Ger
man minorities inhabiting the dis
tricts taken from Germany. Another
deals with the interallied civil COM
mission which will administer the left
bank of the Rhine occupied by the
Allied troops to which the existing
military commission will be subordi-
mated.