The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29
FINANCE AND
ARMY TERMS
ARE GRANTED
BY GERMANS
Counter Proposals Presented
by Germans to Peace Con-
ference Today-Austrians
to Get Treaty Monday.
SETTLE ITALY'S CLAIMS
(By Associated Press)

posals formulated by the German del
egation at Versailles have been deliv-
cred to the French authorities. The
four at the peace conference at this
mornings session.
According to semi-official state
ment the full indemnity which Ger
many offers to pay in her counter pro-
posals to the peace terms will include
sums going to Belgium against ad-
vances by the allies, and also the
value of all military and civil property
surrendered by Germany since the
armistice.
1t is further conditioned upon ter
ritorial arrangements. That is, if the
imperial territory is reduced, the sum
to be paid must be correspondingly
distributed, Alsace-Lorraine and Pos
en-, for instance. bearing their proper
tionate shares.
Protest Saar Terms
In the action treating on territorial
questions, the, German counter pro-
posals to the peace terms presented
by the allies say, according to syn
opsis reaching Paris by the way of
Basle, that "the territory of the Saar.
inhabited by 100000 persons. is to be
detached from the German empire,
solely because of claims upon its
coal"
1t is pointed out that during the
fifteen years the territory is to be
subject to the control of commission
in the nomination Of which the pop
| lation has no choice"
Regarding Schleswig-Holstein, the
German reply remarks that the from
1 fior Ixyhinh mill he
the stipulations of the treaty "goes
much further even than the Danish
| government desires"
Condemned by Press.
! The Conservative press of Berlin
condemns the counter proposals to the
peace terms submitted by Germany es-
pecially the financial and military
concessions which are granted.
The Pan-German Gazette brands the
reply as suicide" and the Post says:
"The German people are doomed to
| slavery between two masters until
new Germany arrives to break the
| chains
The Kreuz Zeitung is skeptical of
! the success of the counter proposals,
| despite what it calls Count Won
Brockdorf- -Rantzau's submissiveness,"
and the Taeglische Rundschau says:
'@The German reply is fully as depress-
ing as the entente terms"
| Treaty Delayed.
When the peace conference met in
the plenary session this afternoon to
hear the Austrian peace terms, 1t was
announced that the treaty had not yet
been completed. It was decided there
fore, to postpone the session until
| Saturday when the completed treaty
was expected to be ready
Another reason for postponement
of the treaty session was request
from the smaller powers, especially
| the Balkan states that they be allow
ed further time to consider the terms
1t is reported that the presentation
of the peace terms to the Austrian
delegation which had been planned for
Friday noon has been postponed until
Monday.
Fiume to be Independent.
1t was stated in high quarters this
morning that settlement OF the Adri-
attic question now is a certainty as
result of the negotiations of yester.
day and last evening. Under this set
tlement Fiume becomes an independ-
ent city.
! The Italians will receive certain of
the Dalmatian Islands, but it is under
stood that they will not get Zara or
Sebenico.
TAKE ISSUE WITH ALLIES
/ Germany today made formal reply
to the treaty terms presented to her
on May z. While not as voluminous
as recent reports have led the world
to expect, the German counter pro-
posals appear to take issue with the
ollioc orfry an t.,
phases Of the treaty, according to sum-
maries received from Berlin and Paris.
Immediately after the presentation
of Germany's reply Count Won Brock
dorff-Rantzau, chief of the enemy
peace mission, will. according to re-
port. leave Paris for Spa Whether
his departure will mark his retirement
as a member of the German peace
mission left Paris for Germany yester-
day.
Dispatches from Paris indicate an
agreement by the council OF four on
questions relative to the Adriatic and
! the city Of Fiume. That city. accord
ing to the latest reports, is to be an in
dependent municipality, Regarding
the other arrangements made. 1t is
stated that certain of the Dalmation
, islands are to go to Italy, but 1t is un-
derstood that she will not get the
Adriatic ports Of lara and Sebenico.
Vatican Represented.
The Vatican is represented officially
, at Paris for the first time since the
, peace conference began work, Mon
| signor Cerretti. papal under-secretary
| OF state, being in the city to discuss
, with the entente chiefs the status of
) Catholic missions In lands affected by
) the deliberations of the conference.
| 1t is improbable, it is said, that he
t will be officially received by the con.
) ference because of the clause in the
: treaty of London, between Great Brit.
+ ain, France and Italy, which barred
: the Vatican from participation in dis.
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