Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
FINAL TERMS ARE
GIVEN TO ENEMY
BY CONFERENCE
Germany Must Sign Treaty by
Monday or Fight.
ARE READY TO MOVE
Allies Stand Pat on Big Points and
Demand Justice for 100000 Dead
-cIemenceau in Singing In
dictment of Prussians.

last word about peace terms was
handed to the German delegation
shortly before seven o'clock Monday
evening. Its delivery was delayed by
a several hours wrangle over n of
the chief concessions-civilian control
of the occupied Rhine districts. Again
Frances "Tiger" won his point after a
long and fiery debate. The conces-
sion was stricken from the amended
document.
Immediately upon receipt of the
document Count Won Brockdorff- Rant
Eau, president Of the German peace
delegation, left by special train for
Weimar. There he will submit them
to President Ebert, who, in turn, will
lay them before his cabinet-0f
which Rantzau, as foreign minister, is
q neutrality-suspicious. to reading
them in the national assembly. That
body, according to all recent news
from Germany, is to decide on the
final "yes'' or mo"
CIemenceau Lashes Germans.
With the revised treaty Paul Datas-
ia, secretary Of the peace conference,
handed Count Won Brockdorff-R Rant
Eau a 4,500-word covering" letter,
written by Clemenceau. 1t is a bitter
denunciation Of Germany's pickering
attitude, a singing re~capitulation of
her war crimes, an explanation Of the
treaty notifications, and-an ultima
tum. 1t tells the Germans fatty that
no further attempts at bargaining will
be tolerated; that they must answer
Eyes" or mo-" and do SO within five
days.
This means that by six o'clock this
coming Saturday evening she must
notify the powers without any ifs
and "buts" and "howevers," whether
she will or will not sign.
After that notification she will have
three additional days of grace in
which to affix her signature to the
treaty. If her answer Saturday Is
'yes," the diplomatic and ceremonial
machinery will be set In motion for
the greatest gre%en-table event in his
tory, and the world will have peace
not later than a week from tomorrow.
If she says mo" five days hence, the
peacemakers will lay aside their pens
and tell Foch to go ahead. His sword
Is sharp and half ~unsheathed, ready
for the coup de grace" He would
promptly inform the Germans by wire
less that the armistice is off and the
war will be or again beginning at six
o'clock Tuesday night, June "a. The
three fateful days between Saturday
and Tuesday are the last in which the
Germans may choose between utter
militaro-economic subsection and
peace.
In Clemenceau's "take-it-or-leave-it''
letter he admits that the treaty is a
hard one, but he adds that its hard
ness is fully justified by Germany's
course in ~plunging the world into the
abyss Of war and by her methods dur
ing the conflict. He tells them prac-
; tically in so many words that, having
} Embossed the world calamity, they
! must suffer for 1t.
The revised treaty of peace contains
assurance of membership in the
League Of Nations Sin the early flu
ture," provided Germany fulills hel
obligations.
This is a considerable concession
though it does not meet the German
demand for admittance to membership
Immediately upon the signing Of peace
, The new document meets the Ger
man demand for cooperation with &
German reparations commission.
, It also puts the powers on record as
willing to receive suggestions for dis
charging the German r~eparational OBJ
. legation.
4 This opens the way to oral discus
! sions the Germans asked for-but no
: until peace is signed. 1t remoyes tn,
grounds on which the German!
charged infringement on their sover
> eighty and national pride. In tn,
reparational transactions.
Another change In the treaty tex
provides for the plebiscite in uppe
Silesia for which the Germans ha,
: asked. 1t also guarantees coal from
that province presumably in tn
event that the p,ebiscite goes agains
Germany.
Drop kiel Canal Question.
!, The original proposal Of an inter
national commission for the admins
tration Of the Kiel canal has bee
dropped. The Germans had declare
; they would accept such a commissioI
only If other straits were similarl
treated (alluding manlfestly to tn
|, Suez or Panama canals).
Among the notifications also ar
frontier notifications in West Prussi,
, The third zone of the Schleswi
plebiscite Is omitted in the new draf
: The Germans had charged that thI
! zone went farther than Denmark be
! se.f wished to go.
The Germans are allowed q tempo
= nry increase of their army from 100
600 70 10000. which meets their pie
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