The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-20
TREATY CHANGES
ARE MINOR ONES
German ENJOYS Are Given Seven
Days to Accept or Refuse
Allied Terms.
WRITES WARM LETTER
Premier ciemenceau Accompanies
Final Conditions With scathlng Ar
raignment of Germany's Course
Before and During War.

Paris, June 18.-The Allied and as
ISOLATED powers, in their final reply
to the terms of peace handed to the
Germans at Versailles, May q, allow
the foe ENJOYS seven days 10 accept
or reject the treaty as it stands.
If the Germans accept, peace will
be signed at once; if they do not &C.
cept the armistice will terminate Mon
day and the powers will take such
steps as may be necessary to enforce
their terms.
List OF Changes.
A plebiscite for upper Silesia with
guarantees of coal from that territory.
Frontier notifications in West Pres
STA.
Commission of the third zone in the
Schleswig plebiscite.
Temporary increase of the German
army from 100000 to 100000 men.
Declaration of the intentions to sub.
NIT within month of signature a list
of those accused of violation of the
laws and customs of war.
Offer to cooperate with German
commission on reparation and to re-
ceiye suggestions for discharging the
obligation.
Certain detailed notifications in
the finance, economic and ports and
waterways clauses, including abolition
Of the proposed Kiel canal commits
sion.
Assurance of membership in the
league of nations in the early future
If Germany fulfills her obligations.
clemenceau's Letter.
The covering letter is from Premier
Clemenceau, president of the Peace
conference, to Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau, president of the German dele
cation. In this letter M. Clemenceau
says:
1.-THE Allied and associated powers
nave given the most earnest consider
alton to the observation of the Ger
man delegates on the draft treaty of
peace. The reply protests against the
peace on the ground that it conflicts
with the terms upon which the armi-
stice of Nov. IL, 1918, was signed and
that it Is a peace of violence and not
peace of justice. The protest of the
German delegation shows that they
tail to understand the position in
which Germany stands today. They
seem to think that Germany has only
10 make sacrifices in order to attain
peace, as if this were but the end of
some mere struggle for territory and
power. The Allied and associated
governments, therefore, feel it neces-
sary to begin their reply by a clear
statement of the judgment of the
world, which has been forged by prac-
.ically the whole of civilized mankind
Crime Against Humanity.
''In the view of the Allied and asso-
ciated powers the war which began
On Aug. II, 1914, was the greatest
srime against humanity and freedom
Of the people that any nation calling
itself civilized has ever consciously
committed. For many years the rul-
srs of Germany, true to the Prussian
tradition, striVed for a position of
dominance in Europe. They were not
satisfied with that growing prosperity
and influence to which Germany was
entitled and which all other nations
we're willing to accord her; they re-
quired that they should be able to
dictate and tyrannize over a subserv-
lent Europe as they dictated and tyr
annized over a subservient Germany"