The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-28
ish in the same proportion.


ish in the same proportion.
AT the end Of a very short time
Germany would therefore not be in
a position to give bread and work to
| ner numerous millions of inhabitants
who would be reduced 20 earning their
| livelihood by navigation and by trade.
Those persons would have to emigrate
but that is material impossbility,
all the more so because many co,n-
tries, and the most important ones,
| Will oppose any German immigration.
| Moreover, hundreds of millions (?) of
Germans expelled from sne territories
or the powers now at, war with Ger
many, from the colonies and terrific
/ rles which Germany must surrender
will return to their na;ive land
1.-The putting into execution of the
ENDS OF peace would ::lerefore logical
iy bring about lass of several mil
lions Of persons in Germany. This
catastrophe wouldn't be long in COM
ing about, seeing that the health of
| the population has been broken down
during the war by the blockade, and
during the armistice by the aggrava-
| tlon of the blockade of famine. No
| help, however important or over how
| ever long period, it might be dis
| trlbuted, would prevent these deaths
en- masse. Peace would impose on Ger
many numberless human sacrifices
thai this war of four years and half
dld not demand of her pride U,75O,-
600 killed, nearly one million dead.
victims of the blockade).
| owe do not know, and indeed We
doubt, whether the delegates of the
Allied and associated powers realize
the inevitable consequences which will
take place in Germany. An industrial
state very thlckly populated closely
pound up with the economic system
OF the world, and reduced to the OBJ
'lgatIon to import enormous uuanti-
ties of raw material and foodstuffs,
suddenly finds herself pushed back in
the phase of her development which
would correspond to her economic
conditions and the numbers of her
population as they were half a cen
tury ago. Those who will sign this
treaty will sign the death sentence of
many millions Of German men, women
and children
Il thought it my duty, before en-
terlng upon discussion of other de-
tails of the treaty, to bring to the
knowledge of the A1li' d and asso-
ciatcd delegations this summary ex-
pose of the problem of the German
population.
81 have at the disposal of your ex-
cellency statistical proofs of the above
| Statements
81 have the honor, etc.
| (Signed) "BrockdorT- -Rantzau.."
Allies Answer.
/ The reply Of the Allied and asso-
ciated powers, approved by the coun-
Gil of their principal members on Nav
~, also was made public. 1t reads
as follows:,
"The Allied and associated powers
h"vc received and have given careful
! at tention to the report of the commits
sion appointed by the German Govern
mcnt to examine the economic condi-
tlons of the treaty Of peace.
This report appears to them to
contain very inadequate presentation
OF the facts Of the case, to be mark
ed in parts by great exaggregation.
and to ignore the fundamental consid
erations arising both out of the Incl
dcnce and the results Of the war,
which explain and justify the terms
t. 1T it is sought to imnosn.
THE German note opens with the
st ltcment that the industrial re-
sources of Germany were Inadequate
a population of 67,00O,OO0, and it ar
glcs as though this were the total for
which with diminished resources she
will still be called upon to provide.
"This is not the case The total
population of Germany will be reduced
bv about 100000 persons in the non
German territories which it is pro
pcsed to transfer. 1t is the needs of
this smaller aggregation that we are
cled upon to consider.
"Compla'nt is made in the German
ncte that Germany is required to sur
re 1der her merchant tonnage, exist
ing or in course Of construction, and
th 1t 9 prior claim is made upon her
shipbuilding capacity for limited
tenn of years. No mention, however,
is made Of the fact TINT considerable
sroaller portion of the tonnage of Ger
many is left to her nnimpaired and
it seems to have entirely escaped the
nctice Of her spokesmen, that the sa-