The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-27
PEACE TERMS ARE
UPHELD IN FINAL
REPLY TO ENE MY
Few Changes as Allies Stand
Pat on the Big
Points.
GERMANS MUST SIGN
TREATY BY MONDAY
Armies Are Ready to Move Eastward
II Acceptance Is Not Prompt-Jus-
tice Is Demanded for 100000 Dead
Because Of Prussian Brutality.

IN 80 wi fgSNSJNNS D~0A
Because Of Prussian Brutality.
Paris, June 1.-THE "big four's'
last word about peace terms was
handed to the German delegation
shortly before seven o'clock Monday
evening. Its delivery was delayed by
a several hours Wrangle over one of
the chief cOnceSSionS-civilian control
of the occupied Rhine districts. Again
Frances Tiger" won his point after a
long and fiery debate. The conces-
sion was stricken from the amended
document.
Immediately upon receipt Of the
document Count Won BrockdOrff-Rant-
Eau, president Of the German peace
delegation, left by special train for
Weimar. There he will submit them
to President Ebert who. in turn, will
lay them before his cabinCt-Of
which RantZau, as foreign minister, is
a member-preparatOry to reading
them in the national assembly. That
body, according TO all recent news
from Germany, is to decide on the
final yes or mo"
~CIemenceau Lashes Germans.
With the revised treaty Paul Datas-
Ia, secretary Of the peace conference,
handed Count Won Brockdorff-Ran
Eau n 4,500-word covering" letter,
written by Clemenceau. 1t is a bitter
Qenunciation of Germany's pickering
attitude, a singing recapitulation of
her war crimes, an explanation Of the
treaty notifications, and-an ultima
tum. 1t tells the Germans fatty that
no further attempts at bargaining will
be tolerated; that they must answer
"yes" or no." and do so within five
days.
This that by six o'clock this
coming Saturday evening she must
notify the powers without any "ifs"
and butts" and ~"howevers," whether
she will or will not sign.
After that notification she will have
three additional days of grace in
which to affix her signature to the
treaty. If her answer Saturday is
yes" the diplomatic and ceremonial
machinery will be set in motion for
the greatest green-table event in his
tory, and the world will have peace
If she says mo-" five days hence, the
peacemakers will lay aside their pens
and tell Foch to go ahead. His sword
is sharp and half u~nsheathed, ready
for the coup de grace" He would
promptly inform the Germans by wire
less that the armistice is off and the
war will be on again beginning at six
o'clock Tuesday night. June "a. The
three Hateful days between Saturday
and Tuesday are the last in which the
Germans may choose between utter
militaro-economic subsection and
peace.
In Clemenceau's "take-it-or-leave-,t'
letter he admits that the treaty is n
hard me-, but he adds that it's hard
ness is fully justified by Germans
course in plunging the world into the
abyss Of war and by her methods dur
ing the conflict. He tells them prac-
tically in so many words that, having
unloosed the world calamity, they
must suffer for it. +
The revised treaty Of peace contains
assurance Of membership in the
League of Nations sin the early fu-
ture," provided Germany fulflls her
obligations.
This is a considerable concession.
though 1t does not meet the German
demand for admlttance to membership
Immediately upon the signing of peace.
The new document meets the Ger
man demand for cooperation with n
German reparatiOns commission.
1t also puts the powers on record as
willing to receive suggestions for dis
charging the German reparational OBJ
legation.
This opens the way to oral discus
slons the Germans asked for-but not
until peace is signed. 1t emove the
grounds on which the Germans
charged infringement on their sorer-
eighty and national pride. in the
r%eparational transactions.
Another change in the treaty text
provides for the plebiscite In upper
Silesia for which the Germans had
asked. 1t also guarantees coal from
that province presumably in the
event that the plebiscite goes against
Germany.
Drop kiel Canal Question.
The original proposal Of an inter-
national commission for the admins
tration Of the Mel canal has been