Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-12
GENERAL REVIEW OF
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
tBy The Associated Press.)

The German delegates to the peace congress evidently are working hard to absorb ill detail the demands en- braced in the lengthy peace treaty. They seem, however, to be putting forth their objections to the document article by article, when demands are encountered against which they con- slider they have reason to demur In the meantime Marshal Foch is re- ported uno1icially to have made prep aratlons to return to the front Mon- day.
 further notes have been forwarded to the french foreign office by the Germans, i'll addition to the represent ations made last week by Count Non Brockdorff-Rantzau. in seeking modi- , tications uf terms in the peace treaty that no nation could endure These commun- ca tions deal with the subjects of prisoners of war and labor legisla- tion. h general. the labor clauses of the treaty are satisfactory to the Ger mans, who, however. declare they do :; not go far enough. and suggest a labor convention at ersallleS to discuss the ] points raised.
 President Wilson is declared to have actively collaborated in the replies to | the first communications of the Ger ] mans, i'll one or which it was set forth 1 that the allies could admit of no dis cussion of their right to insist upon the terms of the peace treaty substan- 1 italy as drafted.
 i Six of the lesser lights of the Ger man peace delegation have reparted : from Versailles for Berlin. undoubted- ly for the purpose of discussing the peace situation with the German gov i ernment
 Late despatches from Berlin assert 1 that a great wave of dissatisfaction is sweeping over Germany as result of i full knowledge having come of the 1 terms for peace tAat have been inn posed on the country. Bitter invectiye lis heard everywhere againsr the allies, and il is sad that probably for the I first time ih= history all parties are one lsirf the opinion that -what Germany is l asked to giye. is beyond all reason and fairness and that the treaty should not | be signed.
 From Silesia comes a proclamation 1 issued by the chief president and the i central council protesting against the ! partitionfng of Sllesia and calling upon ] the Silesians ito let the world know Aside from tho lndems.ity which 1 we will not submit to such a peace" Germany is to pay the allies, Norway l through her foreign minister, is seek ing to have Germany make good tc
 
 sunk by submarines during the period
 of histilities.
 President Wilson conferred Sunday with Premier Clemenceau Of France Arthur J. Balfour, the British foreigr
 secretary. and Premier Nenizelos o1
 Greece, presumably oh the Greek sit
 patton, which is soon to be taken 1T
 in connection, with the Turkish ant
 Bulgarian treaties.
 While it is stated that the council O
 foreign ministers has nearly completed 1 it's work of rearranging the Austro
 Hungarian boundaries. it is reported in Paris that the council of four fa not yet taken up again Italy's deman' for the cesSion to that country Of thu port Of Plume. to which President Will son is declared still to be opposed. \ demand for the cxtradition iron Holland of the former German em peror has reacned Holland. accordin; , to note issued by the Dutch lesa l ton in Paris