Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-20
Revised Peace Treaty
For Germany Is Longer
Than the First Draft
Most Important Change. In
The Different Sections Are
Given Out By Peace Con-
ference; Several Articles
Regarding Poland Altered.

Paris, Thursday, June 19.--(By Tho
Associated Press 1.-The alterations
and amendments incorporated by the
council Of four in the revised treaty
ment than the draft originally sub
mitted to the Germans and published
in the United States 1t now COM
prises 214 pages. five more than the
original, and even this was effected
by closer paging. At various. points
the drafting committee sought to ad-
here az far as possible to the original
trived to make up for insertions or
omissions by combining or splitting
articles.
AS at first arranged, the new in
strument still contains the original
fourteen points and 440 articles. The
article assuring Silesian coal and min
erals to German industry now reads:
POLAND undertakes to permit for
a period Of fifteen years the exporta-
ton to Germany of the products Of
mines in any part of upper Silesia
transferred to Poland, in accordance
with the present treaty, without ex-
the Germans to purchase these prod
ucts on the same terms as the Poles y
Danzig Free Port.
In the revised draft, "the principal
Allied and Associated powers UNDER
take to establish Danzig as a free city.
This language, in which the responsl-
bility of thes five great powers for the
creation of the new city and state Is
definitely assumed, is substituted for
the original phraseology declaring
merely that "Danzig is established as
a free CITY," 49,
The new article which replaces the
original provision for the disarma-
ment of Germany number 165, pro-
viding for reduction to a specified
point within two months now reads In
the English version:
"Up to the time at which Germany
is admitted as a member of the
League vof Nations, the German army
shall not possess armament greater
than that fixed in the table submitted
in this treaty. and continues Ger
many, agrees that after she has be-
come member of the league, the
arrnaments fixed by the table shall
oes oed'3 IN af fGPee fe FnftheTmers ay eas
sheSAereby .agreeas kict,v to observe
fheY decisions OF the council ins.tfh1ts
respect a I III. ,.&if :. :,
a comparison Of the old :. and new
drafts relative to the new Polish
frontiers and the Silesian plabiscite.
The frontier changes correspond gem
orally with those outlined in recent
dispatches, but bring the Polish
I frontier nearer to Breslau, on the
east, than was at first contemplated,
and give Poland new section of the
Prussiatl province of Pomerania IN
Il exchange for the coast strip of the
same province returned to Germany,
y although the council of four planned
& for a while to make all Pomerania
Il German on historic grounds.
Y Some of the changes in the treaty
"A can be indicated only by reference to
#maps of the largest scale.
M Vote to Be Taken.
The provisions for plebiscite in
$the Silesian regions show that the
eyote will be taken in virtually all of
upper Silesia except small areas in
the southwestern and northern cor
ners which were awarded uncondi-
kionally to zecho-Slovakia and Pol
and respectively.
The plebiscite must be held be-
tween the sixth and eighteenth
months after the signature Of the
peace treaty. The same, conditions as
Regards the retirement Of German
&rmies and officials and the disband-
gfnent of workmen's .soriety, which
VI were included in the. Schleswig-H Hol-
kstein and East Prussian plebiscite
#provisions are found in that affecting
A significant article Of the treaty
brohibits political prosecutions, by
Either the Polish or German govern
nents for any. activities during the
6lebiscite in Stiesia.