Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-05-30
GERMANS MUST
ANSWER QUICK
Time For Reply to Allies Terms
Has EXpired-Counter Pro
pOsals Cover los Pages of
Printed Matter.

; with the hour n hand when Cor
many must make known to the AL
.lde and associated powers Germany
intentions with regard To the ucacr
terms submitted to her, the culy I'M
passc i'll the way of letting the Au,
II ians know what their penalty is "a
be Tor having been associated with
Germany nthc war has been reach
ed.
Yesterday ut Versailles witnessed
the ceremony of the eGrman peace
delegation hnding in their reply to
the Allied terms. The reply will con-
sist Of II volume of counter propos-
ais and ncccptanccs aggrcgatng los
pages of printed matter.
Today at St. Gcrmnin the Ans
trlans who have been clnmorinr for
in early presentation of the Peace
Treaty that has been arranged ro,
them, will be called before the peace
congress and handed the document.
| This has been made possible thru
an agreement reached in the Council
of -Four on one mighty question that
mad blocked the Council in it's cnor.
To settle the issues with the Aus
trinns-ltaly's demand that she br
awarded Fiumc, seaport on the
northeastern Adriatic, and given 9th
er concessions in Dnlmatia to whicl,
President Wilson and Premier llov,.
Georfe and Premier Clcmecenu he
lic"ed she was not fully entitled. The
nature of the settlement has not vet
ben maede public.
The German reply will run the ga
NUT from financial inability to meet
the Allied terms through u long 80
RES OF protestations OF unfairness of
treatment to the declaration that il
would be injustice for he Allies to
demand the right to try German cul-
prits charged with having commit
ted excesses during the war;
Great stress is to he laid in the
German document on the assertion
that the Allies are virtually abnn-
donlng President Wilson's Fourteen
Points of peace, which the German.
declare they accepted as basis far the
signing of the armistice.
1t is reported ;hat tho Gcrmans
in I'M endeavor to offset the Entente
claims for reparation will go so far
as to put in counter clnim for
nearly thirteen billion marks for al
legged damages suffered because of
the blockade laid by Allies against
Germany.
American troops who since las,
August have been with the Allied
forces III Northern Russin are soon
to be started homeward. The Amer
lean cruiser Des Moines has arrived
at Archangel conveying Transports
with British volunteers to relieve the
Americans and the gunboat Yanton
and other transports are expected in
few days. The first batch of the
Americans is expected to be home
ward bound within u week on board
some of the transports.
Germany's counter proposals. to the
terms of the peace treaty presented
to her plenipotentiaries at Versailles
includes the following points, accord
ing to an unofficial summary:
Germany offers to disarm all 0.
her battleships, on condition that n
part of her mercantile fleet be re-
stored to her.
She proposes that there be no ter.
rltorial changes without consultation
of the populations affected.
The cession of Upper Silesia and
the claims to East Prussia, the West
Prussia and Memel are emphatical-
ly rejected.
1t is stipulated that Danzig shall
become free port and the river Wis
tula neutralized.
Occupied territory is to be evacu
ated within six mouths.
If the League of Nations is ostab-
lished with Germany as u member,
Germany shall continue TO administer
her colonies in accordance with the |
principles Of the League as its man
datory.
Germany offers to pay 10000 ,OOO,-
coo marks in gold by the year 1926.
as indemnity and to make annual
payments from 1927 onward to tot
al not in excess of one hundred bill |
lion marks in gold.
1t was expected that the counter
proposals would be officially made
known Wednesday.
The German counter proposals TO
the terms of the treaty of peace will
in the opening section argue for the
existence of Germany's contractual