Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-06-20
PEACE NEXT MONDAY


Unless the Germans should ask for and receive
further extension of time in their final reply to the
Allies on the treaty peace will have been signed by next
Monday evening. That is the present limit of time for
the Germans to answer, and they will sign the treaty
This was made certain by yesterdays Associated
Press dispatches, of which from Berlin declared
that the people were becoming resigned to their fate
that they were demanding of their leaders that the
treaty be signed and the agony ended
That is exactly what the officials want putting I'M
great show of hostility to the treaty and denouncno
it in the of the Fatherland it will be fine on
portunty for heroic-sacrifice play by them to bow
humby to the will of the people and sign tn. treaty let
ting the records show for future that they were for
Germany to the last.
There is nothing that the German nation can do
but sign There disputng that the treaty shackes
Germany for and years, but the alternative is in
vaslon-being ground under the military heel which
Germany knows from practice be made terrible
In the changes Incorporated in the reply of the
Allies to the German counter proposals the most i'm
portant is probably the consenting to admit Ger
many to the League of Nations in the near future
vided she fulfills her obligations Another important
change is the promised pebscite for upper Sesia with
guarantee of coal from that region Frontier rect-
fications in West Prussia permitted increase of the
German army from 100000 to 100000 men, the offer
to cooperate with the German Commission on Repara-
tons in considering suggestions for dschargng Ger
many's obligations other notifications of the orig
inal terms
With the revised treaty that was handed to the
Germans there also covering letter by the French
Premier Cemenceau which is dignified indictment Of
Germany and reply to her claims that the peace out
lined in the original treaty is not peace based on JUS
ce One of the first paragraphs in the letter reads as
follows:
SIN the view of the allied and associated powers the
which began on the 1st of August 1914, was the
greatest crime against humanity and the freedom of the
people that any nation calling itself civilized has ever
consciously committed. For many years the rulers of
Germany, true to the Prussan tradition strove for
position Of dominance in Europe They not salts
fled with the growing prosperity and influence to which
all other nations willing to accord her, or the
society of free and equal position"
After this the letter goes on to tell of the German
responsibility for the declaration of war; her nhumane
conduct of that war, the terrible crimes committed by
her soldiers under the official sanction of her officers
"The conduct of Germany is almost unexampled
in human history The terrible responsibility which lies
at her doors can be in the fact that less nan
100000 dead lie buried in Europe while more than
100000 others carry upon them the evidence of
wounds and suffering because Germany saw fit to graft
fy her lust for tyranny by resort to war"
One of the features of the Premer's letter is his
quotation from welknown wartime speeches made by
the four leading spokesman of the Big Four President
Wilson, Premier LloydGeorge, Premier Orlando and NJ
Cemenceau himself In their protest against the peace
treaty the Germans insisted that the Allied Spokesman
had repeatedly declared that their quarrel was not
with the German people but with the German govern
ment and asked for enency that since the Ger
government that caused the war was out of power
The Premier's quotations contained in his letters
evidently reply to this he quotes for instance from
President Wilson's speech of April g. 1918, in which
the president said: "There is therefore, but
possible from force force the utmost force
without stint limit the righteous and triumphant