Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-10

May SEEK
bOLSHEvlK
SUPPER I
People Declare They will Not
Accept Peace Of Force, No
Matter What Comes;
Leaders Stunned.

Berlin, May 9.-(By the Asso-
ciated ss.)-The people, though
fairly stricken dumb by the peace
terms, are now recovering suffi-
GENTLY to declare that Germany
cannot and will not sign the COM
pact, no matter what comes.
Strikes are increasing and bolshe-
vism and the Spartacan uprising Of
the, past two months have, if any
thing, made Germans immune to the
possible horrors to be anticipated il
they are again plunged into war,
according to the best opinion here.
There exists small group of Ger
mans, chiefly conservatives, who
prefer to see the entente occupy the
whole country than to have it boil
shevik, but they are in the dwin-
ding minority.
Proposes Appeal to Russia.
There is only one immediate
solution of the problem-peace with
Russia and the use of bolshevik
troops for Germany" Herr Gies-
berts, one of the German delegates
at Versailles, is quoted by the Neue
Zeitung as declaring with reference
to the peace terms submitted.
Other of the German delegates
are quoted by the newspapers Ver-
sailles dispatch as follows:
Herr Landsberg: "The cruel an
nouncements of the press have been
exceeded. No verbal objections can
be handed over. We can do moth
ing but say yes or no. That is the
quintessence of a peace of force"
Professor Schuecking: 'The docu-
ment is, simply awful"
Political Leaders Stunned.
The parliamentary leaders of all
factions admit they were stunned by
the severity of the proposed peace
terms. Beyond casual comment,
however, they declined to discuss
the conditions or details or to fore
cast the assemb1y's probable atti-
tude.
A leading member of the inde-
pendent socialists declared the
peace offered was wholly dictatoria1
and that its revision was possible
only through world revolution.
Means Slavery, Says Hirsch.
Premier Hirsch, speaking in, the
Prussian national assembly, char
acterized the peace terms as rep
resenting a purely mailed fist"
peace which would mean slavery for
the fatherland, and fresh bloodshed
for Europe"
'The government appeals to you"
he continued, ito close your ranks,
preserve your calm and avoid indis-
cretion in case of dissensions. We
are faced by the question of to be
or not to be. The entire nation
must stand behind the government
to convert this project peace of vio-
lehce into peace of right.
"That is possible only if the ma
tion which is expected to sign its
own death warrants, firmly supports
the government. This, the most
mournful day in our history, must
find US strong"
Press Condemns Treaty.
COMBINATIONS of the peace terms
is expressed by all newspapers here,
those of the extreme right referring
to the conditions as "unfulfllable"
and to the treaty as IAN instrument
of robbery"
The Freiheit says that compared
with the policy Germany pursued
at Brest-Litovsk, the entente peace
must be termed quite moderate"
but, tits argued, that the terms are
in sharp contradiction with Presi-
dent Wilson's IA points"
"a peace of annihilation," is the
caption used by Vorwaerts. which
says there is "a ruthless. desire to
lay Germany permanently low by
force. If we sign this peace it is
because we are bound by force, but
in our hearts we resolutely reject it.
Such peace is an attempt to ex-
terminate nation, not by force OF
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