Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-11
ALLIES GET
 TWO LETTERS FROM GERMANS Declare Text of Treaty is
 Impossible. ALLIES ANSWER
 BOTH EPISTLES Germans Are Told the Second Para. graph Allows for New League
 Members.
(By The Associated Press.D

tBy The Associated PreSS.)
 Paris. May 10.-The German peace delegation declares in letters sent to the allied and associated powers that on essential points the basis of the peace of right agreed upon between the belligerents has been abandoned.
 Two letters have been sent to the
 allies, to which replies have been
 made. The first letter reads as fol-
 lows:
 "The German peace delegation has
 finished the first perusal of the peace
 conditions which have been handed over to them. They have had to real ize that on essential points, the basis
 of the peace of right agreed upon be- tween the belligerents has been aban- doned.
 They were not prepared to find that the promise, explicitly given to the German people and the whole of
 mankind, is in this way to be ren-
 dered illusory.
 'The draft of the treaty contains
 demands which no nation could en- dure. Moreover. our experts hold that
 many of them could not possibly be
 carried out.
 The German peace delegation will
 substantiate these statements in de- | tail to the allied and associated gov ernments their observations and their
 material continuously. | (Sgned) "Brockdorff-Ra Reply is Issued. 1 To the letter, the following reply | was made today by the allied and as-
 sociated powers:
 '"The representatives of the allied and associated powers have received the statement of objections of the
 German plenipotentiaries to the draft
 conditions of peace. | "In reply, they wish to remind the : German delegation that they have formulated the terms of the treaty 1 with constant thought of the princi- ! pies on which the armistice and the
 negotiations for peace were proposed. 1 They can admit no discussion of their right to insist on the terms of the
 peace substantially as drafted. They
 can consider only such practical sug- gestions as the German plenipOten- 1 tiaries may have to submit" Send Second Letter. 1 The second letter from the German , representative read: "The German peace delegation has l the honor to- pronounce it's attitude on the question of the league of na- {. tions by herewith transmitting Ger man program, which, in the opinion of the delegation, contains important i suggestions on the league of nations 1 problem. "The German peace delegation re- serves for itself the liberty of stat l ing it's opinions on the draft of the
 allied and associated governments in detail. In the meantime, it begs to call attention to the discrepancy ly- l ing in the fact that Germany is called ] upon to sign the statute of the league of nations as an inherent part of the
 treaty draft handed to us and on the
 other hand is not mentioned among
 the states which are invited to join the league of nations. "The German peace delegation begs i to inquire whether and. if so, under what circumktances such invitation 1 is intended.
 (Signed) "Brockdorff- Rantzau." N Allies Reply. The reply of the allies to this is
 as follows:
 "The receipt of the German pro-
 gram of the league of nations is ac-
 knowledged The program will be referred to the appropriate commit tee of the allied and associated pow CTS.
 "The German plenipotentiaries will find on re-examination of the cov- enant of the league of nations that the matter of the admission of addi- tional member states has not been overlooked, but is explicitly provided for in the second paragraph of ar ticle one."