Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-28
German Counter
Proposals Rank
Huns as Victors
Berlin Government Displays
Unexampled Nerve in Its
Demands For Peace Con-
cessiOn go Acquiescence
Would Bring Peace With
out Victory to Allies.
Try Associated Press. !


ter proposals. to the term o. the
peace treaty include th' sw'na
points, according tr 'off'e'a'
summary today; y
Germany asrees disarm All
battleships on CO. SIN that part
Of hsr m're.nf Sect be restored
to her.
She propo. ,anere be no terri.
toriai changes without consultation
Of the populations conesrned; the
cession OF upper Silesis and the
claims 20 East Prussia, West Prus-
sia and Msmel are smphatics'ly
Jeetsd.
Il 10 stipulated that Danris shall
become a FREQ port and the river
vistula neutralixed.
Occupied territory 10 TO he svao-
uatsd within six months.
~ the league Of nations 10 sstab-
lishsd with Germany az a member.
Germany shall continue to admin
ister her colonies and nandatoriss.
Germany offers to pay 10000
000, 900 marks in gold by tho year
1925 az indemnity, and to make an
nual payments from 1927 onward
to a total not in excess Of 100000
100000 marks in gold.
II was expected today that tho
counter proposals would bs offiei-
ally made known on Wednesday.
The reply complain. t@s. "..ssht
before right" dominates tho whols
allied treaty.
Objection is expressed TO the de-
mand that Germans be surrendered
for trials in enemy courts, tho re-
ply contendine that an impartial
authority should be instituted TO
establish all violations Of inter
national law by whomever COM
mitted.
Il is declared BY the Germans
that aitho the speech made by
President Wilson in 1916 rscog-
nixsd that responsibility for the
war rested on the entire European
system, tho treaty reauires Germ
any to acknowledge she and her
allies were responsible for all dam
age suffered in opposing countries.
Il 10 claimed TO be, incontestab's
that some Of the allied and as
soci ated powers entered the war
for territorial conquest.
Complaint 10 made that the
amount Of compensation 10 TO be
fixed BY hostile commission
whose powers would enable y to
administer Germany ~ bank
rupt state. This, II 10 declared, 's
inoom patible with the innate right
of nations.
Tho statutes Of the league Of na-
tions, Il 10 further asserted, con-
trsdict numerous declarations
made by the governments opposed
to Germany and tho league 10
merely a continuation Of tho enemy
coalition. Il is added there 70 no
rea,ization Of a real league OF ma
t;ons and that in its present form
the LEAGUE re- establishes in effect
tho alliance Of 1875.
The reply maintains that tho
treaty shows Germany as nation
which is simply to be destroyed.
and adds: -
"This is a complete Reputation
Of the idea that every nation has
a rjoht TO existence and violates
tho right Of self determination
The statement then details long
objections to tho proposed treat
ment Of the Saar region, Open,
Malmedy, Morosnet and Alsace
and the eastern frontiers, and ar
oue,s that the worst manifestation
Of tho disregard Of the right OF se'f :
determin alton 10 the separation OF
Danxia from the German empire.
Other abrosations cited include
the refusal to allow the millions OF
Germans in German Austria to
unto with Germany while other
millions Of Germans are forced to
remain under the new Czeoho-
Slavic state.
Section III. reiteratesy the deciar-
alton that the draft of tho trsaty
is in contradiction to the basis OF
r;aht for a lasting Peace, "of
riaht which was agreed upon" "
SAYS that the treaty involves de-
struction Of German economic iife
and subjects the German people to
, financial slavery "unparslleled
in the history Of The world
II tho treaty came into force, u
declares. Il would offer q fresh
catastrophe for the world.
"A dying philosophy Of imperial.
istio and eapitaIistie tendencies
Il says, "h,ss:-= j: celebrating its last
triumphs. We appeal to tho men
under which tho British state do
veloped, the Dutch people liberat-
ed themselves, the North American
nation established its independ.
enoe and France shook off It's alb.
soiutisn. Tho sustainsrs Of a
sacred tradition can not refuse Il
70 a people who have Just won the
power to life according to its own