Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-02-25
FOE REJECT NEW
I TERMS; THEN SIGN
German Cabinet at First Decided
to Fight Allies.
NOW PLAN TO CUT ARMY
Party Leaders Were Consulted and
! Compelled Reversal of the War
Like Decision to take
Chances" on Military
Moves

Paris, Feb. I9.-The Italian delega-
ton states in an official note to the
peace conference that Italy cannot ac-
cept arbitration with the ,Jugo-Slavs
OF Italian claims in Dalmatia.
Weimar, Feb. 19.-The German cab
met voted early Sunday morning to
reject the allies terms for the renew
al of the armistice and take the
chances of a military advance being
ordered by the allies. After consulta-
non with the party leaders, however,
the decision was changed, and Sunday
night orders were issued that the arm
istice be signed.
Draft Almost Completed.
Paris, Feb. 19.-The special commits
sion of the supreme council, charged
with drafting the terms of a definite
arlnistice which will hold good until
peace preliminaries are signed. has al
most completed its task and it is pos
slble, says Havas report, that Mar
shall FOch will be able to notify the
Germans on Thursday or Friday of
the military and naval terms, which
will be essentially those of the pre-
lImlnary treaty. 1t is understood that
the terms will include clauses by
which Germany will be allowed to
maintain only 100000 men under arms
TO Keep order. All war material be-
yond what is necessary to euuip these
troops would, according to report, be
placed under control of the allies, who
will also hold Germany's munition fac
tories.
German Army Now 100000.
TreveS, Feb. 19.-Although the dis
armament question was not raised at
the armistice conference here, Matthias
ETZberger, one of the German commits
SiOners, volunteered a statement that
the German army consisted of only
100000 men, 40 per cent of whom were
OF doubtful value. He said that the
German army had been demobilized
TOO quickly and that it was made
quate to maintain order in the coun-
try.
Apart from the conference, Erzberg-
er made number of declarations, say
ing particularly that the political fu-
ture of Germany was fixed by Presi-
dent Wilson's fourteen points" He
asserted that Germany would hence
forth be new country, adding that II
would he genuinely democratic and
would loyalty participate in the League
OF Nations on the principle of politi-
cal and economical equality. He said
that Germany was ready to agree TO
disarmament on land and sea and i'm
the air.
Under the new terms for the renew
al of the armistice as presented to the
Germans by Marshal Foch Germany
must abandon all offensive movements
against the Poles and also must pro-
hibit her troops from crossing the Rus
sian frontier at a certain line.
Cant Renew War"-Erzberoer.
London, Feb. 19.-Mathias Erzberg-
er has returned to Weimar from
Treves, according to a German wire
less message picked up here. After his
return he appeared before the nation
al assembly and read the text of the
new armistice agreement. When he
had finished the reading Erzberger is
reported to have said:
Il do not wish any member of this
house TO ever have to live through such
heavy hours as it was my fate to live
Mt Treves. The German commissions
activity was kept to the narrowest
limits, as Marshal FOch declined to ex-
tend the period and declared he was
unable to alter anything in the stipu-
lations, since the conditions had been
framed by the chiefs of the allied gov
ernmentS. Marshal FOch'S Interpreter
stated that President Wilson had ap-
proved the conditions of the new arm
istice"
After saying that ne signed the
agreement in accordance with the gov
ernments instructions, after handing
10 Marshal FOch note of protest, Err
berger said:
This is the. message, little crafty
ing in itself, which | have had to bring.
The world knows Germany does not
wish and is unable to conduct a fresh
war but though it is possible to rem
der us defenSeless we must not be
made honorleSS."