The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-21
GERMANY TO HAVE
ARMY OF $4,000
Foch Agrees to Use of Troops
to Stop Disorders in
Rhineland.
STRIKES ARE SPREADING
French Government Accuses
Berlin Government of Mis-
stating Armistice Terms.

CoPENHAoEN, Feb. 20.--The Berlin
Deutsohe Aliocmeine Zcituno says It
learns the German Ministry of Defence
has drafted a bill providing for a stand.
ing army OF from 10000 to $4,000
men. The army will be formed on the
voluntary basis.
Marshal Foch has agreed TO the en-
ployment Of German Government troops
in the neutral zone comprising the ten
kilometre district east of Cologne, but
not including Dusseldorf, and also in
the Rhine region south TO Honnef in
order to suppress local disturbances. &C.
cordIng TO telegram received from
Muenster. Spartacan forces are bonn.
harding the town OF Rotterop, in West
phalia. with artillery. according to news
, from Muenster. Assistance is being sent
from Muenster.
Ruhr Strike Continues.
The general strike In the Ruhr in
Gustrial district continues to spread in
spite OF the fact that a large majority
OF the miners, as shown by votes taken
at many places, oppose the movement.
still
The Socialist Vortcaerts and the
bourgeoise newspapers assert that the
strike Is a political movement insti-
gated by Spartacan and Independent So
| cialist leaders. The Spartacans an
| nounced their intention of carrying the
| strike from the Rhineland into central
Germany for "a final struggle between
| labor and capital"
The police and local militia at Gel
| senkirchen have risen against the
Spartacans and driven them from the
buildings which they had occupied earlier
| In the week.
| The Christian labor unions at Essen
announce that their $4,000 members will
refuse to answer the call for a general
strike.
PARIS. Feb. Accommodation and
! declarations made TO the press by the
German Government or Matthias Erz-
berger. chairman OF the German armi-
stice delegation. contain "fagrant in
accuracies which require immediate cor.
| rection," says an official note issued
late last night. The note says:
| "First-The text OF Chancellor
Scheidemann's protest communicated to
the press by the German Government,
differs notably from the original tex,
handed to Marshal Foch by Erzberger at
I'reves on February 16 at s o'clock p. NJ
| The first phrase as communicated to .he
Press follows: g..
The German Government is consciou.
OF the grave consequences that accep.
lance Of the convention must entail
Version as Given to Foch.
The first phrase OF the text as handed
70 Marshal Foch by Herr Erzberger
reads:
The German Government Is con.
sc!ous Of the grave consequences thai
either acceptance or refusal of the con.
vention must entail CIn German. so
des abkommens.)
I'm the same way a whole new phras,
has been inserted into the text com
mun'cated to the press. as follows:
1T cannot yet be said If we are abb.
TO follow the instructions OF the Al!et
High Command
This phrase does not figure in III,
text as given to Marshal Foch by Erz
berger.
Second. Herr ErEberger declared a
Weimar in reference TO this protest:
This German note was handed e
Marshal Foch before the signing OF IN,
convention and was accepted by him
From our point OF view, then. Il mus
be considFed as forming part OF thu
new armistice convention
Marshal Foch already had Informed
the President OF the German delegatio,
several times that the texts duly signed
by the allied and enemy plenipotentiar,
States alone formed part OF the armis
tice conventions. This note does no
come within that category. 1t is abso