Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-22
GOAD|NC GERMANS
To DEMAND EASIER
TERMS FOR PEACE
Agitatofs Among People Are
melting Them to Demon
STATIONS Which Will Spur
Their Delegates to Protest,
BY James NJ. Tuohy.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish.
ing Co,
(The New York Worldly

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ifs (The New York World
Paris, March 2l.-Visitors returning
| from occupied Germany await with
misgiving the results of the presenta-
ton of the preliminary peace terms
| for signature by the German dele
gates, as signs. have appeared of agi-
tation seemingly designed to excite the
populace into demonstrations which
may spur the delegates to demand
| notifications of the terms.
In respect to the time limit for the
German consideration of the terms, it
has been suggested that three days
will be enough, but no limit has been
fixed yet.
IN the meantime, the manner in
which the peace preliminaries are to
be presented to Germany brings a
seemingly distinct conflict of views
between the British and French, am
informed Andre Tardieu stated yes
terday that we are still formally at
war with Germany the terms should
be handed to Germany by military
delegation under the same conditions
as the armistice.
British information is that as the
conditions are not merely military, but
also financial and economic, the Ger
man delegates must be seen respecting
them. This seems to be the reasonable
course but the matter is still unset
tied.
TOO Guard Foe Delegates.
The French government is makingj
arrangements for the reception and
housing of the German delegates who
are to be summoned to Versailles toI
sign the peace preliminaries.
French opinion of the Germans isl
that they are so tactless that they
would be quite capable of going to
the. teater in Paris, and this posi-
bility that they might tempt fate, il
they were in Paris is thoughtfuly
put out of their reach.
In Versailles they will be conduct
ed each day under guard to the con-
ference and back again, every possible
precaution being taken against un-
pleasant public demonstrations.
Whether newspaper men will be
permitted to approach them is a
question still unsettled; but as every
public man of note in Germany al
ready has been interviewed by jour-
nalists of different nationaities, and
in view of the rule of publicity under
which the proceedings of the confer
ence have been conducted, there
seems no reason why these delegates
should be quarantined.
Discuss Penalty for Ex-Kaiser.
The preliminary report of the COM
mission on responsibilities shows that
an important question has developed
respecting the personal legal RESPONSE
bility of the ex-kaiser from the point
of view of British and American law.
Both maintain that the former kaiser
cannot be made penalty responsible
for acts done in his capacity as a SOW
ereign. such as provoking the war or
violating Belgium; for, in effect, as al
ready stated in these dispatches, war
Is recognized as a legal method for
settling differences.
To bring the former kaiser to JUS
tice it will be necessary to prove
some specific criminal act, such as in
citing to the murder of prisoners or
.ror instance, if he decorated the cap
ktain who sank the Lusitania, which
would max 81 him in British law an ac-
murder after the fact.
q The commission purposed also to-
set up an international tribunal for
the trial of criminals without regard
to their rank.
The French make it no secret that
their position is that to punish the
former kaiser is matter of sentiment
with them, remembering their 1,400,-.
900 dead, and that legal niceties
should not stand in the way. The
question also arises whether the pro-
cedure proposed would be in accord
with the American constitution. as in
,n1x lat ThaI
whole matter goes to the council of
ten for decision.
The British empire delegation gave
its entire sitting Thursday to the
point as to whether Australia or New
Zealand should have the two Pacific
islands just south of the line, Ngura
and Angea. Ngura has wireless sta
ton which the Australian cruiser Mel
bourne destroyed. so Premier Hughes
claims the island for Australia, not
new German frontiers co-terminous
it contains phosphate deposits which
the Germans have worked. r.
But aPremier Massey of New Zea-
land insists that as the islands are
somewhat nearer his country, itl
should have them, the problem re-
mains unsolved.
The future of German Austria Isl
still troubling the conference, and asi
Its union with Germany would makel
new German frontiers co terminus
with the Italian, and on the southwest
would extend along the Swiss terri
tory, condition that both of these
countries and France desire to pre-
vent, the latest suggestion is for the
naturalization of the Tyrol, cutting
off the Vorarlberg district from Aus
tria and its Incorporation as a new
canton in Switzerland.
But the French and Italian canonsi
oppose his solution. as it would incor-
porate a large additional Germanl
population in Switzerland giving the
Germans considerable preponder-
ance. and therefore the conferences
seems to be thrown back on the /
scheme tor Capitalization Of German