The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-10
EBERT ISSUES
| PROCLAMATION
Tells People Germany's First
Reply to Allies Will Convey
Proposals
NFoR PEACE OF RIGHT"
Statement Says Terms Con.
&tradict Promise of State
ment on Wilson's IA Points.

A Berlin, Friday, May 9.--(Via Copen.
hagen.)-Germany's reply to thu
terms of peace presented at Versatile.
l.on Wednesday will be proposal "fol
~ peace OF right on the basis of q
lasting peace of the nations" accord.
ing to a proclamation to the German
people issued here today by Presi.
xdent Ebert.
"a The proclamation says the treaty
would deliver German labor to for
yeign capitalism for the indignity oi
<wage slavery and permanently tetteI
sthe young German republic"
# The proclamation closes with an ap-
peal to tho German people to stand
together. knowing no parties" and
TO preserve with the government
lmutual trust in the path of duty IN
ffhe belief of the triumph or reason
&and right.
NJ Text Of Proclamation.
N The text of the proclamation fol-
{lows:
u THE first reply of the allies to the
jsincere desire for peace on the part
| of our starving people was the lay
ling down of the uncommonly hard
larmistice conditions. The German
people. having laid down its arms,
honestly observed all the obligations
lof the armistice, hard as they were
n Notwithstanding this our opponents
sfor six months have continued the
swar by maintaining the blockade. The
SGerman people bore all these pur-
sdens, trusting in the promise given
fby the allies in their note of Novem-
Der that the peace would be peace
Eof right on the basis of President
Wilson's fourteen points,
Instead of that the allies have now
given us peace terms which are an
contradiction TO the promise given. 1t
'is unbearable for the German people,
and impracticable, even If we put
out measure would be done TO the
German people. From such an M
s3osed peace fresh hatred would be
bound to arise between the nations
and in the course of history there
would be new wars. The world would
be obliged to bury every hope OF a
league of nations liberatlng ana heal
ing the nations and insuring peace.
The dismemberment and mangling
of the German people, the delivering
of German labor to foreign capitalism
for the ipdignity of wage slavery and
the permanent lettering OF the young
German republic by the entente's i'm
perialsm is the aim of this peace OF
violence. The German peoples gov
ernment will answer the peace pro-
posal of violence with proposal of a |
peace of right on the basis of last |
ing peace of the nations.
1.-The fact that all circles OF the |
Germen people have been moved so
deeply testifies that the German gov |
srnment is giving expression to the |
united will of the German nation. The |
German government will put forth |
svery effort to secure for the German ,
people the same national unity and !
independence and the same freedom
Of labor in economical and cultural
respects which the allies want to give
20 all the peoples of Europe, save only
our people.
Nation Must Save Itself.
"Our nation must save itseir by Its
,vvn action. In view of this danger
If destruction the German nation and
he government which it chose must
stand by each otherSknowing no par
les. Let Germany unite in q single
viii to preserve German nationality
md liberties. Every thought and the
,ntire will of the nation ought now 10
>e turned TO labor for the preserva-
ion and reconstruction OF our rather
and The government appeals TO all
Germans in this hard hour 10 pre-
ervo with it mutual trust in the path
,f duty and in the belief in the trl-
lmph of reason and of right"
Decide Wording Of Reply.
Paris, May 10.-(Havas.)-The
1erman cabinet council has decided
1pon the wording of a note that
Germany will present without delay
o the allies, according to a Zurich
lispatch. The note, 1t is added, may
,e made public today.
Will Explain Viewpoint. 81.
Berlin, May 9. Friday.-(A.P)-
'hilipp Scheidemann, the German
hancellor, will at the opening of the
lifting OF the national assembly here
donday, make A long address ex-. I
,laining in detail the governments
-iewpont as to the peace terms, ac- ;
ording to the Zeitung Am Mittag. I