The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-11
Daily Summary
of Peace News


No discussion of their right to
insist upon the terms of the peace
treaty will be permitted by the al
lied powers. This is the reply which
Premier Clemenccau, chairman of
the peace conference, has made to
the delegation representing Ger
many, which, i'm addition to com
planning about the stringency Of the
conditions, is seeking to obtain
general opening of verbal negotia
tions.
Germans peace plenipotentiaries
have submitted two notes to the
allied and asst ciated powers, in
answer to the peace terms they re
ceived Wednesday.
Unofficial reports from Berlin
and Paris say that the notes We're
presented to Premier Clemenceau as
chairman of the peace conference
by Count Won Brockendorlf-R Rant
Eau, chairman of the German dele
cation, Friday night. According
to Berlin report, the German an
swer declared the peace treaty has
in it demands which no people
would bear and German experts
think many of them cannot DE
carried out.
The other note contained a Ger
man plan for league of nations
and is said to have been accom-
panied by a complaint that the Ger
Mans, although not invited to en-
ter it, was asked to agree to the
allied plan as contatned in the
peace treaty.
The reported answer of the Ger
mans came Immediately upon the
issuance by the German govern
ment of an announcement that it
would make contemporaries to
the peace terms and that the Ger
man answer would be a proposal
for peace of right on the basis
of the lasting peace of nations" 1t
had been anticipated that the Ger
mans would not make a formal
answer for several days ut least.
President Ibert's government
has ordered a week of mourning"
in Germany because of the severity
of the peace terms as they view
them. The political situation in
Germany is unsettled ana there are
reports that if the present govern
ment refuses to sIgn the peace
treaty it will be succeeded by one
composed of Independent socialists.
The council of four discussed on
Saturday, it was reported, the
question of what To do to Germany
should she refuse to sign the
treaty. 1t was said the discussion
was for the purpose of being pre-
pared for any eventuality, however
remote. 1t is believed, however,
that the Germans will sign.
President Wilson, according to
Paris reports reaching Washington,
still remains firm on the Adriatic
problem and has not agreed to the
proposal to give Fiume to Italy
after 1923. In a speech Saturday
at the Academy of Moral and Po-
litical Sciences, the president said
that America was ready to defend
liberty wherever and whenever it
was threatened.
Friday night, in a dinner speech,
the president said the war had
given new impetus to information
al law and made it more important
than had been previously.
The president it is said, in Paris
will be back in Washington about
June Is.
Some changes in the German
Austrian peace delegation are re
ported from Vienna as a result of
the decision of the Austrians that
il was hopeless to look forward to
union with Germany. Chancellor
Renner, of the Vienna government.
probably will succeed Franz Klein
as chairman of the delegation.
which is expected in Paris about
"Wednesday