The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-02
Text of Note Covering
Counter Proposals Was
Made Public BY State De-
parunent Last Night.
RHINE REPUBLIC HAS
BEEN PROCLAIMED
Pro isional Governmen tHas
Been Installed At Wies-
BadeI1-Paderewski Asks
Probe of Poland Jews.

Paris Havas, June 1.-The Rhine re-
public was proclaimed today in various
srahine cities, headed by DIR. Borden,
wiesbaden The population hopes it
will end uncertainty prevailing in the
Rhine provinces regarding the allied
nations and Germany.
washington. June Execution of
the peace treaty as framed by the
Versailles conferences is declared to be
"more thar the German people can
bear, by Count Won Brockdorff- Rant
Eau. head Of the German peace dele
CATION, in a note to the associated gov
ernments. outlining the German coun-
ter proposals.
The text of the note made public
tonight by the state department also
says The more deeply we penetrate
into the spirit Of this treaty the more
convinced we become of the impossl-
biItty OF carrying it out"
Brockdorf- Rantzau's note says that
Germany realizes she must make sac
rifiices to obtain peace in summing up
what he says Is the attitude of the
German nation in holding the terms
1lnbearabIe The note addressed to
Premier CIemenceau of France as pres
ident of the peace conference was de-
rvered last Thursday and made pub
lie hy the state department
The German delegation nowhere 80
its note. says it will refuse 10 Sign
the peace treaty but declares that even
in her need. justice for her Is 100
sacred a thing to allow her to stoop
to achieve conditions which she can
not undertake to carry out.
rF
league of nations the note asserts,
means that in signing the peace treaty
Germany would be executing the de
cree for it's own prescription, nay Its
own death sentence" The German peo-
pie the note says, have been dlsap-
pointed in their hope for a peace OF
Justice which had been promised.
And stand "aghast" at the demands
made on thaaz by the victorious vio-
Ience OF our enemies.
Outlining it's counter proposals Ger
man delegation agrees to reduction OF
The German Army and Navy on condi-
tions that Germany Immediately De
admitted to the league of nations,
agrees to renounce Germany's sovereign
rights to Alsace Lorraine and Posen,
bat asks the the principle of self de-
terination for all other territories which
she is called on to give up, agrees to
subject all German colonies to admin
lstration of the league of nations but
under German mandatory, agrees to
make indemnity payments as required
but in amounts that viii burden Ger
man tax payer no more heavily than
The tax payer of the most heavily bur
dened state among those represented
on reparations commissions.
The note declares Germany is will
ing to pool her entire merchant marine
with that Of the associated powers,
nsutraI participation in an inquiry as
to responsibility for the for the war is |
asked.
Premier Paderewsl1i, of Poland made
1t known today that he had decided
to ask President Wilson TO appoint
commission of Americans to go to
Poland to investigate charges regard
ing the trea tment of Jews.
Paderewsli made the announcement
in a letter to Herbert Hoover. He said
"MIstatements' made in New York
meeting about the threatening of Jews
SIS Poland affected him profoundly and
if the commission finds amy case of
transgression of the law where justice
had not been done the Polish govern
ment will undertake TO administer 1t
vigorously" He said reports from Po-
land We're colored by enemy propa-
ganda and while much misery and
suffering exists there. that the Jews
have every consideration the gentiles
have.