Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-20
ENEMY REPLY IS
GIVEN TO PUBLIC
Germans Cite Injustice of Treaty
in Its Present
Form.
SUMMARY ISSUED BY ALLIES
Answer Charges That Original Pact
Constitutes Breach of the Sol
emn Armistice Agreement Based
on WiIsonian IA Points.

Paris, June 16.-"Germany's impor-
tance is Independent of her temporary
military and political position. If she
is not admitted (to the League of Ma
tiOns) Immediately on the signing of
peace it is impossible to speak of a
League of Nations"
This is one of the points raised by
Germany in her 10000 word reply to
the peace treaty, in which she makes
a long series of counter-propOsals. A
summary of that reply was issued by
the committee on public information
on the eve of the delivery to Count
Won Observation-Disclosures 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 those dispatches the
summary reveals, however, some inter-
esting details. 1t shows, alsO that the
German reply was much stronger,
bO.h III lCAl anu lClOl VI plOIOSLo anu
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 ant
of President Wilson are then quoted
as saying the war was against thai
| government, not against the German
people. In the words of the summary
To-day, however, theallied powers
are racing not q nirresponsible Ger
man government but the German peo
pie ruling its own future for itself
This has been utterly disregarded il
the draft treaty."
The treaty is described as "merel!
a celebration of the last triumph of i'm
perialist and capitalist tendencies"
| Won't Barter Human Beings.
In another passage the reply say!
Germany ''cannot consent to the bar
tering of human beings" and later:
THE German government declines
90 make any reparation in the form o.
punishment, and still more emphatical
| ly declines to pass on to individual
| parts of the population the punishment
intended for the whole of the com
munity."
Annexation of the Saar district
\ called the creation of another Alsace
Lorraine. As for those provinces, Ger
many claims their cession withou
consulting the population would be
new wrong. She admits that, "accord
ing to present conceptions of right, a.
injustice was committed in 1871, whe
the people were not consulted"
4 Acceptance of the trial of the eS
kaiser an dsanction of his extraditio
from Holland are fatty refused on tn
ground that mo German subject ca
be brought fore a foreign court with
out established law or legal basis.
Nor will she consent to the extraditio
of other subjects accused of wa
crimes, but instead proposes an inter
national court of neutrals 'to judg
the fact of crime" The punishment
however, she claims, must remain wit
the national courts.
The document bitterly assails tn
abolition of all German rights Outsid
Europe as "irrecOncilable with the pre-
liminary negotiations and as who'll
impossible to a. great people who nc
only have supreme needs for market
and supplies but who have show
themselves capable of sharing til
worlds task of colonization"
A summary of the German protest
and counter-proposals as compute
:, from tOday's official resume, follows
Reparation.
Germany accepts responsibility onl
for civilian losses in the Belgian an
French areas occupied by her in til
war. She agrees to pay not more tha
$25,000,000,000, provided her othe
contemporaries are accepted. Cha
acterizing the allied plan for a repair;
tions commission as infringing on &c
man sovereignty, she proposes a &C