New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Germans Are Told How
Government Can Join
League; All Clauses To
Be Enforced, Allies Say
ENJOYS Instructed
By Ebert Cabinet
Proclamation Is Issued
to Teuton People Urg-
ing They ''Stand Firm

LONDON, May IL (By The AS
sociated Press - The Dutch gov
ernment has decided to surrender
the former German Emperor to the
allied and associated powers, ac-
cording to a dispatch from The
Hague to "The National News"
FARIS, May 10 BY The Associated
Press THE Allies can admit of no
discussion of their right to insist upon
the terms of the peace treaty substan-
TALLY as drafted.
This is the reply to Count Won Brock
dorff- -Rantzau, head of the German
peace delegation, who submitted note
to Premier Clemcneeau declaring that
| the~sl,saee I rea sysastscnts sin nsssVienlands
which could be borne by no people, and
many Of them incapable OF accomplish
ment
Count Won Brockdorff Rantzau also
has been informed, in answer to his
complaint that Germany was asked to
sign the Allied plan for a league of ma
tlons, although not among the states
invited to enter it, that the admission
Of additional member states has not
been overlooked, but has been explicit
y provided for in the second paragraph
of Article | of the covenant.
Two letters were sent to the Allies.
to which replies were made. The first
letter reads as follows:
"The German peace delegation has
finished the first perusal of the peace
conditions which have been handed
over to them. They have had to realize
that on essential points the basis Of
the peace OF right agreed upon be-
tween the bellgerents has been aban-
doned.
They were not prepared to find
that the promise. explicitly given to
the German people and the whole OF
mankind. is in this way to be rem
dered illusory.
Can't Endure Demands"
THE draft Of the treaty contains
demands which no nation could en-
dure. Moreover, our experts hold
that many Of them could not possibly
be carried out.
''The German peace delegation will
substantiate these statements in dc
tail and transmit to the Allied and
associated governments their obser-
vations and their material continu-
ousk. (Signed).
"BROCKDORFF- -RANTZAU."
To this letter the following reply was
made to-day by the Allied and assoeiat-
ed powers:
"The representatives Of the Allied
/ and associated powers have received
the statement OF objections OF the
German plenipotentiaries to the draft
conditions of peace.
I'm reply they wish TO remind the
German delegation that they have
formulated the terms of the treaty
with constant thought of the prin-
ciples on which the armistice and
the negotiations for peace were pro-
posed. They can admit no discus
sion of their right to insist on the
terms of the peace substantially as
drafted. They can consider only
such practical suggestions as the
German plenipotentaries may have
to submit"
The second letter from the German
representatives reads.
THE German peace delegation has
the honor to pronounce its attitude
on the qeustion of the league of ma
tions by herewith transmitting a
German programme which, in the
opinion of the delegation, contains
important suggestions on the league
of nations problem.
"The German peace delegation re-
serves for itself the liberty of stat
ing its opinions on the draft of the
Allied and associated governments in
detail In the meantime it bees to
call attention to the discrepancy ly-
ing in the fact that Germany ID
called upon to sign the statute of
the league of nations as an inherent
part of the treaty draft handed to
us, and, on the othSr hand. is not
mentioned among the states which