Evening star., 1919-04-22

: W llCW
Press) has notified the al
lies that she accepts all the allied
conditions respecting the Versailles
congress. This official announcement
was made tonight.
Germany will send the following
delegates to the Versailles congress.
with full powers to negotiate:
Count Won Brockdorff- f-Rantzau, for
e1gn minister: Herr Landsberg. secre-
tary for publicity, art and literature; !;
DR.. Theodor Melchior. general man.
ager of the Warburg Bank; Herr
Leinert, president of the Prussian as
sembly and of the national soviet
congress-: Herr Geisberg, minister Of
posts and telegraphs, and Herr
Schueching. In all. the German par
ty will number seventy-five. The ar
rival of the delegates cannot be ex-
pected before April 2S.
Question Over Delegates.
The Italian crisis in the neRotia-
tions with Italy obscured .or the
moment the incident over the Ger
man delegation to Versailles in which
We're sending delegates s without uy
plenipotentiary powers, and the coun-
Ing delegates with full powers to
n sisn as;ap,s,e the peace treaty This incident
ana British view being that It was
another effort to delay the settle
ment and to pave the way for . re-
taken by the American delegation Of
the incident, however. was less seri-
GUS. 1t being believed that the Ger
mans mans would promptly accede to the
plenipOtentiaries.
They will do about anything we
want them to do" said one OF the
want ,plenipotentiaries they viii send
them"
Ready to Meet Emergency.
There was little doubt that the al
lied military and naval authorities
had taken measures to meet the Dos
siole emergency Of a failure to sign
the treaty. though It was said these
measures were purely precautionary
ana wlthout any expectation that
in operation.
1t is planned to have such limited
discussion of the peace proposals az
President Wilson and his associates
are prepared to admit, notably the
modes of payment of the sums which
have been exacted as reparations and
explanations on any points in the
long complicated drafts of the treaty
provisos which the German delegates
may seek to begin with without
awaiting the action Of the government
at Weimar. The text Of the treaty
and difficult points as they arise
would in the meantime be commune
Gated to Weimar.
There Is little expectation in COM
petent conference circles that it will
be possible to finish the discussions
with the German delegates and have
the treaty signed within a week from
the date fixed for the first meeting
Indeed. the completion OF the .nego-
tiations within such period was de-
clared to be a physical impossibility.
Ready for Vote on Peace.
BERLIN. Sunday. April 2o.-Ap-
purtenances for an election such as
voting booths. lists and clerks are
all in readiness for an immediate
plebiscite on the peace terms, which
can be completed all over Germany
in forty-eight hours, according to
information obtained from sources
close to the government.
Preparations have been going on Sc
cretly Tor several days, it Is declared,
ana the terms are published one
morning the referendum can be taken
the next day and the answer can 20 to
the entente forty-eight hours later. II
is asserted that the only probable chance
OF an affirmative answer would be in
case there is an agreement to negotiate
details OF the terms. Thus il an indem-
nifty Is fxed Germany cannot hope to
dispute the total, but must be allowed
to send experts to discuss ways and
means OF payment, it is said.
Cabinet Would Dodge.
1t is declared that the cabinet wishes 3
to avoid the responsibility of either
refusing or accepting the terms.
certain. 1t is believed that the re-
suit will be a refusal to accept the
peace terms because the people will
overlook the consequences of such an
act-the maintenance of the blockade
the stoppage of food importations and
the accompanying evils which may be
eXpected---iD view of their reluctance
to sanction harsh terms. 1t is as
serted that an agreement to negotiate
the details of the treaty is absolute
ly the only basis upon which Germany
in her present mood will vote in the
affirmative.
Hugo Haase, former secretary of
foreign affairs and now leader of the
socialist minority. in an article in
the Freiheit on Germany's relations
with other peoples does not share the
general pessimism prevalent with re-
gard to the coming peace negotia-
tiOnS.
The writer sharply criticises the
German policy and protests against
her threats regarding Poland and the
Sarre region. which he argues will
serve no purpose, but will incense the
entente. He also denounces Ger
many's failure to publish diplomatic
documents concerning the critical
months before the outbreak of the
war as confirming the existence OF
sympathy with the spirit of the old
regime. The article concludes by de-
manding that national court try
starting the war.