Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-16
GERMANS CLAIM
ALLIED Terms
ARE TOO HARD
Say Pledge to Peace Of JUS
tice Forsaken and Peace
of Might Demanded in
its Stead.
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! ing that the right of self determina-
ton has been wilfully violated
throughout.
Germany bitterly assails the aboli-
ton of all German rights outside of
Europe as irreconciliable with the
preliminary negotiations, and as
wholly impossible to a great people,
who not only have supreme needs
for markets and supplies, but who
have shown themselves capable Of
sharing the worlds task of COLOMBIA
ton.
Germany is wholly unable to &C
cept the reparations commission set
up by the allies as involving an in
fringement of her sovereignty, but
proposes cooperative German
commission to work alongside it,
She accepts responsibility only for
civilian losses in occupied Belgium
and France and agrees to maximum
payments of 100,000000,000 marks.
provided the other terms as to con-
onies, overseas trade and territories
are accepted as she proposes.
As to deliveries of ships, raw ma
terials and machinery, Germany can
meet the allied claims only in part,
largely because of decreased pro-
duction.
Raps One-Sided Treatment.
Germany demands that in eco
nomic provisions she be treated on
basis of equality and reciprocity
and not in the one-sided way out
lined. She agrees to freedom OF
traffic on German rivers and with
in Germany, but always on condi-
ton that there be no interference
with the German sovereignty. SINH
larly with the renewal of treaties
lapsed through the war, she expects
reciprocal treatment, rather than
the assumption by the allies of the
right to say what engagements are
or are not to become operative
again.
The Germans refuse to accept the |
trial of the former German emperor, |
or to sanction his extradtion from
Holland, on the ground that no Ger
man subject can be brought before
a foreign court without an estab-
lished law or legal basis. Similarly,
she cannot agree to extradite other
subjects accused of violations of the |
laws and customs of war.
Instead, Germany proposes an in
ternational court of neutrals to \
Judge the fact of crime. the punish
ment to remain with the national
courts.
Labor Clause Unsatisfactory.
The labor clauses are not salts
factory to Germany and as a result
she again proposes an international
conference to examine the allied and
associated proposals. the German
proposals and the Berne resolutions.
A bitter protest is entered against
the occupation of the Rhine prov
inces and the demand made that all
allied troops be withdrawn within
six months of peace. The occupa-
ton as proposed, it is commended,
would break up German. economic
life and allow the pre- judicing of
German interests in favor of France
and Belgium.
The summary makes no attempt
to criticise any statements of facts
Or figures made in the reply, mas
much as the German delegation
alone is responsible for them. 1t is
stated that many of them, especially
rs to the eastern frontier, are DIS
if not absolutely incorrect.
Under the heading, THE legal
basis OF peace the German delega-
lion recapitulates the interchange of
with President Will
son between October 5, 1918. and the
arnistice, November H. As a re-
suit of these, they consider that Ger
many as a basis of peace has ex-
oressly accepted President Wilson's
IA points and nothing else. Accept
anee of the terms of the armistice,
t is declared, was to be evidence Of
he honest acceptance of these con-
iitions by Germany.
Asserts Right to Discussion.
1t is contended that the allies also l
accepted President Wilson's IA l
points and that, therefore, a solemn I
agreement as to the basis of peace
.xists between the two contracting
PARTIES. The practical application of t
hese principles must be negotiated I
,pon and Germany asserts her right
o discussion.
Chapter two deals with the al