Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-20
ENEMY REPLY IS
GIVEN TO PUBLIC
Germans Cite Iniustiee of Treaty
in Its Present
Form.
SUMMARY ISSUED BY ALLIES
Answer Charges That Original Pact
Constitutes a Breach of the Sol
emn Armistice Agreement Based
on Wilsonian IA Points.

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Paris, June 16.-"Germany's impor.
lance is Independent of her temporary
military and political position. If she
is NOT admitted Ito the League of Ma.
tions) Immediately on the signing OF
peace it is impossible to speak of a
League of Nations
This rs one of the points raised by
Germany in her $4,000 word reply to
the peace treaty. in which she makes
a long series of contemporaries. A
summary of that reply was issued by
the committee on public information
on the eve Of the delivery to Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau by the allies
of the amended pact.
On the whole the summary covers
| little new ground, the main points OF
the German arguments having been
covered in press dispatches during the
last few weeks Beyond putting Off
cial stamp .on these dispatches the
summary reveals, however, some inter
esting details. 1t shows, also that the
German reply was much stronger,
both in text and tenor of protests and
counter-demands, than hitherto indi-
Gated.
| Main Thread Of Reply.
The main thread of the German an
swer is the charge that the original
peace treaty constitutes a breach of
the solemn armistice agreement, based
ON the Wilsonian IA points. 1t says
the treaty would mean "the complete
enslavement of the German people and
the betrayal of all the worlds cher.
ished hopes of peace" The right of
self-determination the Germans assert
has been 'wilfully violated through
out"
! 1t Is difficult to see, Germany AYERS,
how and harsher terms could have
been distated to the former imperial
istic and irresponsible government
Many speeches of allied statesmen and
of President Wilson are then quoted
as saying the war was against that
government not against the German
people. In the words of the summary
To-day. however, theallied powers
are racing not irresponsible Ger.
man government but the German peo-
4 pie ruling its own future for itself
This has been utterly disregarded in
the draft treaty"
The treaty is described as merely
celebration of the last triumph of inn
perialist and capitalist tendencies"
Won't Barter Human Beings.
In another passage the reply says
Germany cannot consent to the bar
tering of human beings" and later:
1.-THE German government declines
to make any reparation in the form of
punishment, and still more emphatical.
ly declines to pass on to individual
parts of the population the punishment
intended fer the whole of the com,
munity.'
Annexation of the Saar district is
called the creation of another Alsace,
Lorraine. AS fer those provinces, Ger
many claims their cession without
consulting the population would be q
new wrong. She admits that, accord
ing to present conceptions of right, an
injustice was committed in 1871. wher
the people were not consulted"
Acceptance of the trial of the ex
kaiser an dsanction of his extradltior
from Holland are fatty refused on the
ground that mo German subject car
be brought fore foreign court with
ont established law or legal basis.
Nor viii she consent to the extraditior
of other subjects accused of wal
crimes. but instead proposes an inter
national court of neutrals ito judge
the fact of crime" The punishment
however. she claims. must remain witt
the national courts.
The document bitterly assails the
abolition of all German rights outside
Europe as "irreconcilable with the pre-
liminary negotiations and as wholly
impossible TO a great people who not
only have supreme needs for markets
and supplies hut who have shown
themselves capable of sharing the
worlds task of colonization"
a summary of the German protest.
and counterproposals as computed
from today's official resume. follows:
separation.
Germany accepts responsibility only
for civilian losses in the Belgian ant
French areas occupied by her in tn,
war. She agrees TO pay not more thar
$4,000. 100000 provided her othel
counter-proposals are accepted. Char
acterlzing the allied plan for rcpara
tions commission as infringing on Ger
man sovereignty, she proposes a "co