The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-26
TEUTONS DENY
KAISER'S GUILT
Blame for War Laid on Russia
in New Note Delivered
to Allies.
WILL Reject THE TREATY
Unqualified Stand of ENJOYS
Unless Terms Are Unex-
pectedly Modified.
(By Herbert Bayard Swope, by Tel
egraph From New York World
Copyrighted

(Bv Herbert Bayard Swope, by Tel
egraph From New York World,
Copyrighted)
Paris, May 25.-lnformation com
inging today directly from the Ger
man commission and unqualified In
utterance is that the treaty will not
he signed unless unexpected modi-
fications is made in the terms. This
is based upon Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau's conference with Chancel-
lor Schedemann at Spa.
The Germans will go through the
form OF submitting notes on each
separate item, so the record may be
complete, but there is every reason
for believing a definite position has
been assumed to reject the treaty.
Tonight a new note was issued by
the Teutons on responsibility. in
whic. the kaiser's guilt is denied
and the blame for war Is laid on
Russia. Earlier they sent n note on
the highly important question of pri-
vate property in war time which, ac-
cording to the terms of the treaty,
is made inyiolate.
The manner in which reparations
are to be executed makes the dis
tinction more apparent than real for
the treaty demands that the Ger
man government officially seize prop
erty of all her nationals lying l.. al
lied nations which is to be re med
by alien property custodians In the
allied countries, who have about
$500, 100000 worth of German
wealth. BY this method private prop
erty is governed into national hold
ings which can legally be expropri-
ated by creditor countries.
Austrians Gets Terms Tuesday.
am informed tonight that the
regulations concerning Danzig are to
be modified to make them less OBJ
, jectionable TO Germany. From sources
usually reliable comes the informa-
ton that the Austrians are to re-
ceive their treaty Tuesday in re-
sponse to a protest against further
delay.
Reasons for Trip to Spa.
Nincoln Eyre. BY Telegraph From
New York World, Copyrighted
Versailles, May 25.-There is no
good reason to suppose that the sud
potentiaries to Spa implied the re-
solve to reject the treaty forthwith.
At a meeting which Won Brock
dorff- -Rantzau and his colleagues were
to have at Spa with Scheidemann and
! his associates, it is far likelier to
mean either a change in the person
mel of the Versailles delegation or a
weakening of the Berlin governments
! expressed determine tion not to sign
! the present terms.
The former development. as was
indicated in these dispatches as A
strong possibility, is more probable,
inasmuch as it would be extremely
difficult for President Ebert and
Chancellor Scheidemann and their
Clique to eXtriCate them selves from
the uncompromising position they
have assumed.
Ostensibly. Won Brockdorff- Rant
Zan went to Spa to put the final
| touches to the voluminous document
which Germany intends to offer as a
counter treaty.
During the same period the instru-
ment was being discussed by the ma
tional assembly committee at Berlin.
Now it has remained for the German
ministers and delegates to approve
the document in it's final form, after
which 1t was to be turned over to the
printing establishment installed in
the special train which Won Brock
dorff-RantZau summoned to Yer
sailles two days ago.
Most Important Conference.
The Spa conference undoubtedly
was the most important that Ger
many's peacemakers have held since
the allied conditions were submitted
to them two weeks ago. From it
| must emerge a policy that will def
nite!y determine whether Germany
means to accept the peace dictated
| by the allies.