Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-19
GERMANS PROTEST
TREATY TERMS AS
|. LEARNED THUS FAR
Warn Poles to Release In
termed Civilians or Take
Consequences.
USE "sTRoNG ARM" TACTICS
ALONG EASTERN FRONTIERS
Budapest Communists Reported
to Have Slain DR.. Wekerlc
and Archduke Josef.
STRIKE SPREADING IN BERLIN
HarbOr Town Workers Arc Rcfusin.
to Unload American Food
Ships. seA
USE "STRONG ARM" TACTICS
ALONG EASTERN FRONTIERS
STRIKE SPREADING IN BERLIN
Harbor Town Workers Arc Refusing
to Unload American Food ~
| Ships. 7aA

PARIS. April 1s.--Coincldentally with
threatening rejection of the allied
reace terms If these are found to con-
fict with the Wilsonian fourteen
points. Germany is using strong arm"
military methods along her eastern
borders. ,,'s7
On the heels OF news that German
and Gcrman-Baltic troops have seized
power at Uibeau, overthrowing tho
local government there. comes word to-
night from Berlin that the Prussian
government has threatened to take
the strongest measures" against Pc.
land If interned German civilians are
not released Immediately.
The Budapest communists. accord
murdered DR.; Wekerle, former Hun.
Earian ga so,dr, premier, Arehduke Josef and
ieades a s0iOFPRs o fhs old an Influential
Scores have been wounded in new
street fighting in Berlin. The strike
900 workers are e. out l and 5000 6e stores ose.L
warehouses. offices and banks are
In Munich. the Davarian capital. IN, IN,
communists are reported to have,. .re-
s ;IsSs ~ 'Htfuse 10 Ta,esd ,sshipM slts
lin the I'm rbor towna' q general ss & ks
men efasGa asesd
Fifty persons we're killed in a n,unts an,ts
!, s. The PolIsh-German boundary Giisssss. G1iisss
ton was finally disposed OF by : the
Council Son Of four this morning. Moan
SONS taken, but II Is understood that
DJanzis will be tnternationaIized, while
fne from ,oies isst VIII have soErldor running
give them access to the sea - ,N5;s
with David Lloyd. George, british
his niss 10 dsgain his seat after
before ise HOUSE Of Peass cemsens sSaisreqss ass
hearing Of the Claims Of tSe SeeMsd Ttaluns lss
to the important Adriatic seaport of
thiums FL. n,sa.i and :, also had under discussion
Al the White House. nj the eopastiemss resdenss
IN raris Of President Wilson.
me opinion prevails in Paris that.
Will Will the Italian demands now the re-
q ,Se situation IS such that President
" mid.May with signed copy OF. the
peace peace treaty for submission to Con-
L is bsievea bntGn IN sGms e. in Paris
session not later than June. 1. 80
Strike Threatens Germany. @
German text OF the treaty-the docu.
ment TO be issued only in the French
dhu EnBIsh languages
Proclaimed in Bremen and the assera
tion has has been made that It Shss
tasnn 1een impossible fbsrs to unload toodatuffa
ship a German wireless communica-
xnHao ton has been made that it has
pnrtment stores and speciaitv sbnn. 0u aes s.,
Beritn nave joined the bank empioyees'
strike; st Fix r. In Bavaria the situation still
available. In Vienna there also hay,a
been disturbances. The Bolshevists
sulSips sttempeed b,1, to stern the rariianent
Brigadier-GeneraI Richardson nas
arrived on an ice-breaker at Arch
forces fighting in that region. mes
sage from General Pershing road ny
General tTnnns c,1,sd Richardson to the American
me morale that was expected Ibf
Helgoland, Germany's great buttress
ssiwers, Flyers, y to be dismantled. but not
Qualifications along the KieI Canal viii
DC permitted TO remain in existence
CannI Defenses Retained.
Ths naval terms to be Incorporated
Ke eana and traa5y the
revised In several Important particu-
lars. II was the original plan to de-
maSyyns nsaGy sne ,e tortieations OF the canal
way without defenses The changes
that now have been made leave the
present fortitications In existence. and
provisions also have been inserted 5ar.
mittinS the continuance of the pres,
ent coast Idefenses, all Of which ware
TO have been destroyed according 20
the original plan. 'ts'Sl
, The changes concerning Helgoland
leave intact the present large basin
constructed on an extensive scale for
the use OF submarines during the war
It was concluded that the use of sub
marines now had been SO restricted
that the basin no longer constituted n
menace, and its continuance was de-
cided upon as providing a useful haven
for the North Sea fishing fleet in casS
OF distress. ~.',fs
The fortifica .ions OF Helgoland are
to be disInantled, so that the basin a.
virtually the only thing retained. 95
No DeciSion Vet nv 20 Fleet. s
The final disposition of the German
neet ds one OF the subjects still mn -,
decided and even the highest navaf:.it-
thorittes are not aware how the ouea-
tion stands since II passed into the
HANDS OF the council OF four
haHtleships and battle cruisers is ono OF
the chief things to bc determined .un-
der the, head Of naval terms, aud3fffie
decision will affect the larxe rumhsr
of capital ships held under the terms
OF the arTntsttce. = jFSi -lT ";
Military experts, under the direction
OF Marshal Foch, have been cha r,s,si
with the drafting OF a report on, wEf.
should De done IN the oycrlt3 that Gor-
many refuses to sign tho tfcatysesf