Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-25
PEACE TERMS ARE
UPHELD IN FINAL
REPLY TO ENEMY
Few Changes as Allies Stand
Pat on the Big
Points.
GERMANS MUST SIGN
TREATY BY MONDAY
Armies Are Ready to Move Eastward
if Acceptance Is Not Prompt-Jus-
tice Is Demanded for 100000 Dead
Because of Prussian Brutality.


Because of Prussian Brutality.
Paris, June 1.-THE 'big tours"
last word about peace terms was
handed TO the German delegation
shortly before seven o'clock Monday
evening. It's delivery was delayed by
a several hours wrangle over one of
the chief concessions-civilian control
of the occupied Rhine districts. Again
Frances Tiger" won his point after a
long and fiery debate. The conces-
sion was stricken from the amended
document.
Immediately upon receipt of the
document Count Won Brockdorff-Rant-
Eau, president of the German peace
delegation, left by special train for
fWeimar. There he will submit them
to President Ebert who, in turn, will
lay them before his cabinet-Of
which Rantzau, as foreign minister, is
a member-preparatO to reading
them in the national assembly. That
body, according to all recent news
from Germany, is to decide on the
final Eyes" or mo"
cIemenceau Lashes Germans.
With the revised treaty Paul Datas-
ia, secretary of the peace conference,
handed Count Won BrockdOrff-R Rant
Eau a 450O-word covering" letter,
written by CIemenceau. 1t is bitter
denunciation of Germany's pickering
attitude, a singing recapitulation Of
her war crimes, an explanation of the
treaty notifications, and-an ultima
tum. It tells the Germans fatty that
no further attempts at bargaining will
be tolerated; that they must answer
yes" or no." and do so within five
days
This means that by six o'clock this
coming Saturday evening she must
notify the powers without any "ifs"
and "buts" and "howevers," whether
she will or will not sign.
After that notification she will have
three additional days of grace in
which to affiX her signature to the
treaty If her answer Saturday is
Eyes" the diplomatic and ceremonial
machinery will be set in motion for
the greatest green-table event in his
tory. and the world will have peace
not later than a week from tomorrow.
If she says no" five days hence, the
peacemakers viii lay aside their pens
and tell Foch to go ahead. His sword
is sharp and half unsheathed, ready
for the "coup de grace" He would
promptly inform the Germans by wire
less that the armistice is off and the
war will be on again beginning at six
o'clock Tuesday night, June "a. The
three fateful days between Saturday
and Tuesday are the last in which the
Germans may choose between utter
militaro-economic subsection and
peace.
In Clemenceau's ''take-it-or-leave-it''
letter he admits that the treaty is a
hard one, but he adds that its hard
= ness is fully justified by Germans
course in plunging the world into the
abyss of war and by her methods dur
ing the conflict. He tells them prac-
tically in so many words that, having
Embossed the world calamity, they
must suffer for it.
The revised treaty of peace contains
assurance of membership in the
League of Nations ain the early flu
ture," provided Germany fulfills her
obligations.
This is a considerable concession,
though it does not meet the German
demand for admittance to membership
Immediately upon the signing of peace.
The new document meets the Ger
man demand for cooperation with
German reparations commission.
Tt also puts the powers on record as
willing to receive suggestions for dis
charging the German reparational OBJ
litigation.
This opens the way to oral discus
Sions the Germans asked for-but not
funtil peace is signed. 1t removes the
grounds on which the Germans
icharged infringement on their sover-
ieignty and national pride, in the
lreparational transactions.
Another change in the treaty text
provides for the pIebiscite in upper
Silesia for which the Germans had
asked. 1t also guarantees coal from
that province presumably in the
event that the plebiscite goes against
lGe<many).
Drop kieI Canal Question.
The original proposal of an inter
national commission for the admins
ltration of the Kiel canal has been