Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-06-04
NEWS REVIEW Oh
CURRENT EVENTS
Germans Hand il Their Counter
Proposals for Peace to
Council of Four.
WANT TO RETAIN COLONIES

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Make Many Other Demands to Which
Allies viii Not YieId-Adriatic Cues
ton Settled. Fiume Becoming In.
dependent city-Western Can
ada Strike Spreads.
BY EDWARD W.. PickARD.
The Germans have handed in their
counter-proposals-1O8 printed pages
OF them-with the evident and pre-
sumably justified feeling that they
won't do Germany any particular good.
II the replies Of the allies to Brock
dorn- Rantzau's preliminary notes fur
nish any basis for prediction. it is safe
to say that this bunch Of counter-pro-
posals will in, the main be turned down
fiat by the. council of four.
AS was easily foreseen, the Germans
predicate their propositions largely on:
the fourteen points and on: various
fdealistic utterances of President Will
son and others, and quotations. from
these are used literally. The ideas
of territorial self-determination and
opportunities for economic, develop
ment are played upon strongly, and
the peace terms prepared by the al
lies are declared to be In contradiction
to a just peace and dominated by the
might greater than right" principle.
Germany refuses absolutely to cede
Upper Silesia, and declines to give up
the Saar basin. Posen and other terri
tory unless a plebiscite is held. Dan
zig, she says, must be free port and
must not be in any way controlled by
the Poles, but 1t Is agreed that the
Vistula river may be neutralized as
far as the Polish border. She agrees
to surrender her warships and to dis
solve the rest of her navy, but de-.
mands merchant shipping in exchange,
saying this is necessary to her COM
mercial life. She accepts the limita
ton Of the army to 100000 men. but
wants more than that for the present
to maintain order. She offers to pay
an indemnity Of $4,000, 100000 in gold
by 1925 and to make annual payments
thereafter up to a total Of $25, 900, 00O,-
600, but puts in counter-claims OF
about So; 300, 100000 for damages from
the allied blockade. =. r.---
3 The. Germans refuse to admit that
Germany is alone. 70 blame for the war
and its damage, and take slap at
Italy and Roumania. which. they as.
sert, entered the conflict for terrific
rial conquest. AS for personal respon-
sibility, they declare they will not sur
render the former kaiser and others
Tor trial by the allies, asserting they
can be tried only by Germans or neu
trails
Return of Germany's colonies is de.
manded, though It is agreed that Ger
many might be willingg. to act as man
datory for them under the league OF
nations, and the right of Germany to
enter the leagnE< at once on an equal
ity With other NATIONS is asserted. .lAll
occupied territories. say the. counter,
proposals, must be evacuated within
,siksmonths.. In claiming the: return sot
the colonies the Germans >,Ieall atten:
ton to the fact that ali impartial set
Element Of all colonial claims. was
promised in number Eve Of the four:
teen points. This reads:
..Free. open-nninded, and absolutely,
impartial adjustment Of all colonial
claims. based upon a strict observance
IF the nrinciDIp flint in determininp all