The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-10
Germany Has Now Completed
Ratification of Treaty.
Peace Conference Is Notified OF
Action at Weimar.
LIFT BLOCKADE IMMEDIATELY?
Supreme Economic Council
VIII Meet This Afternoon.
German Preparations Commit
tee in Paris This Evening.

Berlin. wednesday. July s.--Presi-
dent Ebert signed the bill ratifying
the peace treaty at O'Clock tonight,
according TO the Vorwaerts. and the
document has been dispatched to YER
sailles.
Paris Is Notified.
Paris. July 10.-Herr Won Lersner.
Of the German peace delegation, Of
ficially notified Colonel Henry, French
liaison officer, at IL a. m. today that
Germany had ratified the treaty yes
terday
The supreme economic council,
meeting at o'clock this afternoon.
was expected to take action for i'm
mediate lifting of the Blockade
Won Lersner also announced that
the German reparations commission,
numbering eighteen, would arrive this
evening and Begin its sessions in YER
sailles tomorrow.
without Reservations.
(By the Associated Pressl
Weimar, July 10.-The German ma
tional assembly very plainly demon
strated yesterday that 1t wanted to
complete the unpleasant task of rati-
flying the treaty by doing il quickly
and without obscuring the measure in
any way with qualifying resolutions.
At the opening of the session the
conservatives introduced a resolution
which would make ratification DEEPEN
dent upon the judgment of recognized
authorities in international law as to
whether the proposed international
court could institute trial and could.
with retroactive Jurisdiction and au-
thority impose penalties which have
not heretofore been prescribed in ia
ternational law. The resolution was
amended at the enforcement of Arti-
cles 227 to $50 inclusive of the peace
treaty providing for the trial of the
former emperor and other Germans
accused of causing the war or of vio-
lationg of the rules Of war;.
Resolution Beaten.
It also provided for the establish
ment of neutral court TO pass upon
conflict. The bill ratifying the treaty
passed the first reading and then a
recess was taken to give the parties
an opportunity to discuss the resolu-
ton. After fifteen minutes the as
sembly reconyened and DR.. Schiller.
national liberal leader and former
minister of finance. stated that he re-
GREETED the Introduction Of the reso-
luton, as 1t would only to serve to con-
fuse the situation. A clerical speaker
passed. The conservatives defended
the resolution but it was decisively
beaten. t
The treaty bill was then taken up
and quickly passed second and third
readings, VITA the opposition coming
from Democrats, nation liberals and
conservatives. DR.. Bernard Dernberg.
former minister of finance; Friedrich
Won Payer, former imperial vice chan
cellor and a few other Democrats
voted for ratification.
The resolution was not passed.
however. until every speaker had pro-
tested against its terms.
I'VE are about to enter upon forty
years march across a desert" said
Hermann sMueller, foreign minister.
addressing the assembly. Il cannot
find another term for the path of suf-
fering which the fulfillment of the
treaty prescribes.
'WOund Will Never Heal"
I'VE have FASTENED ratification in
hope of raising the blockade. Unless
the word of peace loses all its meaning
the return of prisoners must follow
soon, Unanimous protest against the
oppression embodied in the treaty is
maintained today and always"
DR.. Traub of the national party de-
clared, amid applause. that ''the
wound of this peace will never heal;
it shall not healu'
I'VE will never recognize its valid
ity." asserted Herr Kahl of the peo-
pies party.
Get Out of Poland Quickly.
Hopeful indications of Germany's
terms affecting surrender of territory
in Poland, were seen today in the re-
cept of a note from Foreign Minister
Mueller proposing the establishment
of Z joint German Polish commiss. on
to attend to the transfer Of affairs In
the territory to be surrendered
The big five has approved establish
ment of military, naval and air COM
missions for supervising the carrying
out of the peace treaty. All three
commissions will sit in Berlin.
The military commission will be
headed by a French general. the naval
commission by a British admiral and
the air commission by British briga-
der. The commissions will comprise
two hundred officers and numerous
attaches. They will be maintained at
the expense of the Germans.
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