Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-07
RUSH
ON REPLY TO HUNS.
Big Four Also Considers
Counter Proposals at
Meeting Today.
DERNBURG PESSIMISTIC

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June VIRTUALLY all the i'm
portant commissions connected with the
peace conference were in conference to-
day. The activity was due to the direc-
tons issued yesterday by the conference
leaders that the work of the body
should be Speeded up as far as pos
sible.
The council of four met this morn
ing and continued it's consideration OF
the German counter proposals. The
commissions which held sessions in
Guided those on ports and waterways,
responsibilities. Belgium and Alsace-
Lorraine.
Brockdorff-Ra at Cologne.
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, head
of the German peace delegation, who
left Versailles last evening, is on
visit to Cologne, it developed toda. &.
According to the French newspapers,
the counts visit is connected rather
with events in the Rhineland (where
conditions are unsettled through the
recent proclamation of the Rhine
land republic), than with the peace
conference. 1t is understood that
the German plenipotentiary will con-
fer at Cologne with Cardinal Won Hart
mann, the Archbishop of Cologne.
German Assembly Meets Today.
BERN. Switzerland. June (Havas).
The German national assembly will
meet today with members of the gov
eminent and members of the Ger
ence over the status of the Versailles
peace negotiations. the Berlin Gazette
announces.
Unable to Pay, Says Dernburg.
LONDON. June 7.-Germany's in
ability to meet the financial demands
of the peace terms and the inability
of the allies to make her pay are in
sisted upon by Dr. Bernard Dernburg,
the German minister of finance. in an
interview telegraphed by the Daily
Nails Berlin correspondent. Dern-
burg reiterates his recent declaration
that Germany will not sign the terms
as presented. and continues:
las a matter of fact, neither the
entente nor Germany is capable Of
pay and the entente cannot make
Germany pay. You can invade Ger
many and occupy the Ruhr basin and
nobody will stand in your way If you
wish to come to Berlin. But when
you are there what are you going
to do?
Hope Lie. In INDUSTRY. ..,
"Your only hope OF rebaration lies
In getting the German people to work
producing goods which they can give
the allies against money indemnity,
but first they must have food and
then raw materials. You must make
terms which will enable you to get
your reparations reasonably soon.
You do not suppose that our chill
dren are going to remain slaves be-
cause their parents lost the war"
'No Word of Cancellation"
DR.. Dernburg elsewhere in the in
terview speaks dertsively Of Presi-
dent Wilson.
II thought he came over here as a
new sort Of redeemer, in the role Of
Q savior of mankind" the finance
minister is quoted as saying. but I
have not found in the peace treaty
and good will"
Renner Back at st. German.
ST. GERMAN, June 7.-Dr. Karl
Renner. the Austrian chancellor and
head of his nations delegation to the
peace congress-, arrived here today,
had been In conference with Austrian
government representatives from vi
emma. DR.. Renner was accompanied
by Richard SCHUYLER and Herr Stern
balk. technical counselors of the dele
cation.