Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-24
Germany Must Accept to Show
Her Good Faith and After
ward Prove That Her Inter-
nal Reforms Are Genuine.
PLANT AT ESSEN TO
BE CLOSELY WATCHED
Production of War Material to
Be Reduced, Army to Be De-
modified and the Drafting
of Men Discontinued.
By Herbert Bayard Swopc.
(Staff Correspondent of The World
and Albuquerque JournaL)
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub

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Especial Cable Dispatch 10 The
World and albuquerque Journal
Paris, Feb. 23.--So much confus-
ion has arisen through contracdic-
tory statements regarding the arm
istice situation that it becomes valu-
able to outline the precise conditions
existing at this moment
The Germans have signed re-
newal of the old armistice, which re-
mains substantially the same as the
one signed in January, except for
clause concerning he cessation of op-
eratio.s against tho Poles, and the
withdrawal behind stated line
which has been carried In these dis
patches, The armistice is renewed
for month, but is subject to q
seventy two hour termination to al
low the submission of the new arm
istice terms upon which the council
and the armistice commission are
engaged
When these are presented to Ger
many she will b epermitted TO have
the opportunity of referring them to
the new government, since they will
form the ground work Of military
conditions to be written into the
final treaty of peace.
Remove From West Front
The new arfnlstiee which the Brit
ish delegates do not think will be
ready for ten days, but which French
officials inform me will be complet-
"a within five days. will include
these points:
I. Demobili2ation of the German
down n a a vi ,F
ty-fiye divisions.
g Removal of all armed forces
from the western frontier.
3 DiSmantling of the western
border forts
4. Supervision of armament plants
at Essen and elsewhere to prevent
secret production of military equip
ment
8. Restrictions regarding training
OF Il military nature and abandon
ment of the conscription system
6, Surrender of certain war ma
chimes as required by the original
armistice
Z. Reduction in size and the sur
render of all submarines. built and
building.
There will also he further regula-
tons regarding external affairs. 1t
is believed that Germany will accept
these terms without serious objec-
tions, since they are intended solely
to reduce her from a position of
menace and danger to a position in
which she can demonstrate her good
faith in her present protestations of
reform.
In the matter of conscription she
will be treated on all fours with
the other nations, as it is highly i'm
probable that after the League of
Nations begins functioning such a
measure will be necessary anywhere.
Enforcement of this provision will
enable all the world to reduce stand
ing armies and will meet the French
protests against being compelled to
shoulder all the expenses of main
tanning the biggest army because of
the German threat
Bar the Submarine.
And the surrender of the German
submarines will probably be followed
by acceptance by the world of the
American opposition to the employ
ment of this type of craft. ma
jority of the nations are as one with
America in this view.
Germany will run no risk in ac-
cepting the new terms. for she will
become the ward of the League of
Nations, which will be responsible for
her protection against unwarranted
aggression, and this point is prov
ing strong argument to those Ger
man officials to whom the general
tenor of the new instrument has been
communicated
Italy's refusal to accept interme-
diatlon in her boundary dispute, even
at the hands of President Wilson,
was quite expected. The plan met
with no favor among the nations, for
If the present peace conference can
not settle such a matter as this with
the machinery it has created with
out going outside that machinery,
then the whole system is at fault
There is reason to believe that the
plan was undertaken without Presi-
dent Wilson's direct sanction.