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the time limit within which to act
on the treaty.
Whether the Germans sign or not
Premier Clemenceau, the Echo de
PORTS says, will make known to the
Chamber Of Deputies Tuesday the
part taken by France In framing the
peace terms. The newspaper says
that in case of a negative reply from
the Germans the allied troops will
occupy Frankfort on the flrst dav of
the advance and the Ruhr industrial
region the second day. Esq.,.
Poll Taken sn Assembly.
A poll of the members Of the various
parties In the National Assembly made
early in the day seems to show that
the peace terms cannot fail TO be ac
cepted. The Majority Socialists. II u
added. gave a considerable majority in
favor of signing. A despatch from
Copenhagen says the Assembly has ac-
copied the treaty.
A poll Of the various states Of Ger
many was taken yesterday at Weimar.
Hamburg, Bremen and Lubbock voted
against signing; wurttemberg and
Baden were In favor of signing, while
Bavaria and Saxony were undecided.
A Reuter- despatch from weimar states
that a meeting on Thursday Of the Cen
triet members of the German National
Assembly decided by a four-ffths ma
jority in favor Of signing the treaty, with
reservations regarding responsibility for
the war and the honor Of the German
nation. p
Nstionalists solidiy Opposed.
The German National party, 1t Is
stated, is unanimously resolved against
signing. Fifty-six members of the Ger
man Democratic party voted against
signing the allied terms. while eight
others voted that the treaty be signed
conditionally. and one was In favor of
signing without condition, ~.
An Associated Press despatch from
Weimar says the city IL completely cut
off from railway communication with all
sections OF Germany because of sud
denly called railway strike. Airplanes
and the telegraph are the only means of
communication. Government circles see
in the strike a new spartacan attempt
against the Government.
The German Government and the vari-
GUS political leaders are held here until
further notice. A majority OF those in
weimar do not have sufficient clothes
and fresh linen to last more than day
o. two. -.
The alterations and amendments in
corporated by the Council Of Four In
the revised treaty make II q somewhat
longer document than the draft orig
nsily submitted to the Germans and pub
liEhed in the United States. 1t now
comprises 214 pages. five more than the
original. and even this was effected by
closer paging.
Contains 44O Articles.
At various points the drafting COM
mittee sought tc adhere as far as pos
sibie 10 the original numbering of the
articles and contrived to make up for
insertions or omissions by combining or
splitting articles As at frst arranged
the new instrument still contains the
original fourteen parts and 40 articles.
The article assuring silesian coal and
minerals to German industry now reader
POLAND undertakes to permit for q
period of fifteen years the expectation
to Germany of the products OF mines In
any part of Upper Silesia transferred to
Poland, In accordance with the present
treaty, without export duties or restrics
lions. and permit the Germans TO pur-
chase these products on the same terms
As tn, Poles"
In the ravised- draft 1.-The principal
allied and associated Powers" undertake
TO establish Danxig as q free city, This
language, in which the responsibility of
the five great Powers for the creation Of
the new city and state is definitely as
surhed, Is substituted for the original
phraseology declaring merely that Dan
zig Is established as a free city"
The new article which replaces the
original provision for the disarmament of
Germany, No. 1875. providing for reduc-
tion TO n specified point within two
months, now reads In the English YER
sion: up to the time at which Germany
is Admitted as a member OF the League
Of Nations the German army shall not
possess armament greater than that
fixed In the table submitted in this
treaty" and continues: Germany agrees
that after she has become a member of
the league the ornaments fixed by the
table shall remain IN force until modi-
ned by the council Of the league.
Furthermore she hereby agrees strictly
to observe the decision Of the council in
this respect"
Polish Frontier Extended.
The bulkiest as we'll as the most I'm
portant changes revealed by a COMPARE
son OF the old and new drafts are those
relative TO the new Polish frontiers and
the Silesian plebiscite. The frontier
changes correspond generally with
those outlined in recent dispatches, but
bring the Polish frontier nearer to Bres-
lau, on the east. than was at first con-
templated. and give Poland a new sec
ton OF the Prussian province of Pom
erania In exchange for the coast strip
OF the same province returned to Ger
many, although the Council OF -Four
planned for time TO make all Pomera-
MIA German on historic grounds.
Some of the changes in the treaty can
be indicated only by reference to maps
Of the largest scale.
The provisions for a plebiscite In the
Silesian regions show that the vote will
be taken in virtually all OF Upper
Siiesia, except small areas in the south
western and northern corners which
were awarded Internationally to Czecho-
Slovakia and Poland respectively. The
pleblscite must be held between the
sixth and eighteenth months after the
signature Of the peace treaty. The same
conditions as regards the retirement of
German armies and officials and the dis
bandment OF workmens soviets which
were included In the Schleswig II olstein
and East Prusslan plebiscite provisions
are found In that affecting Silesia.
A significant article of the treaty pro-
hibits political prosecutions by either the
Polish or German Governments for any
activities during the plebiscite in Silesia.
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