The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-28
GERMANY WROUGHT
HER own DARK FATE
Declaration of Allies in Answering
Rantzau's Note
TEXT OF NOTE AND ENSW Err
Loss to Shipping Through Ruthless
Submarine Warfare Nearly
100000 Tons.

Paris, May 23.-Germany's econom-
ic status under the terms of the
, peace treaty is the result Of her own
behavior, particularly through the
ruthless submarine warfare, the Allied
and associated council informed Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, in answer to
his note on the economic questions
The Allied answer which was made
public today with the text Of the Ger
man note is negative. It points out
that the German plea is exaggerated
and ignores the fundamental ccnside-
rations which led to The imposition
of the terms
The loss to world shipping through
the German submarine campaign, it
is declared in reply. was nearly ,hir-
teen million tons. The Allied pronrse
to make Germany repay only four mil
lion tons. Responsibility for this
shortage in shipping 81 placed directly
on Germany and the German share
IN replacing it is called every mod.
crate"
Hun Arguments Answered.
In answer to the German plea that
Germany will be called upon to feed
67,Ooo,000 persons, it is declared that
the peace treaty takes 100000 out
OF German control 1t is added that
German agriculture is in better shapa
than that Of Poland, Belgium and
Northern France where the fighting
was heaviest. The Germans COM
planned that they would lose certain
necessary commodities. The Allied
reply is that Germany can import
these goods Germany, it is asserted,
destroyed the Lens coal fields, and
the coal fields taken from her in nav
ment for the destruction wrought
still leaves her sufficient sources of
fuel. The Germans complained that
the German population would suffer
under the treaty, which was described
as. death sentence The reply
points out that all countries are suf-
ferlng as result of the war and
there is no reason why Germany
which was responsible for the war,
should not suffer. German figures as
10 the loss in population due to the
bl9ckade and speculation as to what
will happen to the population in the
future are declared to be fallacious.
There will be every opportunity for
Germany to make he'd position in the
world both stable anG prosperous.
Germany. it is pointed out, has not
suffered from pillage and devastation
ana there Will be saving from re-
duction of armaments and the size
of her army and in turning of the
armament-making population to
works of peace
Text OF the Note.
The note from Count Won Brock
dorff- Rantzau, head of the German
peace delegation at Versailles, regard
ing the economic effect of the peace
treaty, dated at Versailles, May 13,
was made public today. The note
reads:
"Mr President: In conformity with
my communication of the 9th in
stant, / have the honor to present to
your excellency the report of the eco
nomic commission charged with the
study of the effect Of Che conditions
of peace on the situation of the Ger
man population: ..
In the course of thelast two gen
erations Germany has become trans
formed from an agricultural State to
an industrial State. AS long as she
was an agricultural State, Germany
could feed 4O,000000 inhabitants.
In her quality as an industrial State