Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-03-14
HUNS MAKE BIC
FOOD DEMANDS
Refuse to Give Ships Unless
Guaranteed All They Want
to Eat.
BOLSHEWST move FEARED
Spa Conference Ends When German
Agents Insist Upon Surrender
Condition - Prussian Tricks
Are Guarded Against.

London, March S.-The negotiations
at Spa relating to the shipping ques-
tion have been temporarily broken off. |
according to German wireless mes
sage received here.
The allies, the German message
says, demanded that all the remaining
merchant ships be handed over uncon-
ditionally without any obligation to
supply Germany with foodstuffs. The
German message continues:
'The question of handing over the
mercantile fleet can only arise if ade-,
quate food supplies, say 2,500OOO tons
of fOodstuffs, are assured Germany I'M
til the new harvest. The entente would
not agree to this.
Gas the instructions of both sides
did not go beyond this, a French dele
gate proposed that negotiations be
broken off, whereup the two special
delegations left Spa"
Exposes Hun Trick.
| Germany is attempting to win peace
through a secret alliance with "hy-
phenated Americans and pro-German
Dutch and Swiss, the Paris CORE
spondent of the Pail Mall Gazette de-
clares on what he says is ''high au-
thority." The German aids would use
their influence to mitigate as far as
possible the severity of the peace
terms, according to this plan, Ger
many in exchange to give commercial
privileges of a substantial kind"
| 1Jos+
benefit of Germany and selected
group of international financial back
ers is said to be an important part of
the alleged scheme, on which the boil
shevik leaders are declared already to
have been approached At the mo-
ment Switzerland is said to be the
main center of the intrigue
Make Big Food Demand.
Paris, March S-Germany has re-
fused the proposition for the use of
her merchant ships by the allies, made
to her delegates at Spa, the armistice
commissions headquarters
The counter-proposition is made by
the Germans that they will release the
German shipping desired in return for
q definite assurance that enough food
will be sent into Germany t. enable
the government to withstand the boil
shevik movement.
When the allied commission went to
Spa it was believed that the release
of the ships was merely a question of
days. 1t was proposed to the Germans
that in return for the use of the ships,
rental be credited against their food
account.
+ The Germans insisted that there
, must be a guarantee of a steady,
uninterrupted supply of food. No
country was in position to supply food
under the German conditions, SO the
question of credit remains unsettled
Will Resume Farley Soon.
A telegram received from Spa re
ported that the German delegation had
returned to Weimar, whence it sent 6
message stating it expected soon tc
y have new instructions from its gov
arnment enabling it to resume the ne
gotiations.
Consideration of the situation here
v has, given rise to the belief that the
n allied commission will be in posi-
l. ton to resume negotiations and effec
s an adjustment early next week.
S The disagreement over the ships be
e gan in January, when the armistic
@ commissions met, at Treves. The Ger
J. mans complained they had not real
n lied that the ships would be require,
l. for food carrying because of the &C
l. ton of the American congress in pre-
E. viding that none of its $100,000,000 az
,e preparation should go to supply foo
A. to Germany.
Premier Lloyd George, Premie
Clemenceau and E. NJ. House cor
n ferred before the meeting OF the ST
preme council over military, naval an
economic questions connected with til
N preliminary peace terms, on which tn
army and navy experts have been Ill
able to agree.
Guard Against Prussian Tricks.
:, An important question has arise
~ whether the peace terms will be ten
y porary as incident to the close of til
war, or permanent, sholding German
= in subjection for an indefinite pedio
= This last proposal has taken veI
!. definite form as a means for curbir
= Germany for all time, so that she ca
~ not repeal the devices by which Pru
=, sia, utter Napoleon disarmed her, r
y habilitated her forces and thus aide
- TO defeat Napoleon later.
AS a result of this feeling, some
these tGrms foreSee the control of di
armament considerably beyond the p
70 riod of the present war. This,
>, turn, has opened a large vista befo
- the British and American delegates
hn possible commitment to the occup
n ton and supervision of Germany f
nindefinite period. 1t also has pr
sented the delicate question how far
defeated nation should permanent
o lose it's national authority to admin
I1y ter affairs.
oe In view of these considerations Il
"a question of time limit of naval al
~, military control has become more il
portant than the terms themselves
Has a Punch,