Republican farmer., 1919-02-07
Gives Outline of IA Points With His Country's Atti-
 tude on Each. HIS STATEMENT
 IS OFFICIAL Germany is to Abolish Com pulsory Military Service
 At Once.

Count Won BernstOrff has giv- en The Associated Press a state ment written by him after a i consultation with Foreign Min iSter BrockdOrff-RantZau and other high officials of the Ger man Foreign office. Since the Count is one of the men en- trusted with the working out of the details for Germany's parti- cipation in the Peace Confer ence and will, with the Foreign Minister, be a German delegate, the statement may be regarded as official. It was written ill English as follows:
 The question what would Ger many consider peace of right and justice, may briefly be answered in this way: That we would regard as such a settlement, by which the terms of peace laid down by President Will sons address to Congress, Jan. 8, 1918, and the principles of settlement in his subsequent addresses, are car ried out in true accordance with the | high minded and far-seeing spirit in which they were conceived
 Among the 14 points the dominat- | ing note, in our opinion, Is to be at +rit Tn nt hQ DrOVld- | ing for the constitution of a League | of Nations, which as MT. Wilson said | on Sept 27, must be & part and in
 sense the most essential part, of the | peace settlement itself
 1 As the great success of the recently 1 founded German league of nations so- ciety proves, German leading men 1 clearly recognize that nothing but an 1 international league of free and equal,
 peoples can do away with imperial
 ism and bring forth a new world of
 order. The German people feel that, | given such a league and compulsory ! arbitration, peace negotiations would offer no particular difficulties, while
 without its constitution in the peace
 settlement, a peace of right and jus
 tice will be well nigh impossible.
 With regard to the first, second
 and third points in MT. Wilson's pro-
 gram we are in perfect accord with him. In connection with point num-
 Der it may be mentioned that Ger
 many is about to abolish obligatory
 military service, which thus far has
 been considered the cornerstone of
 her exposed position In Europe. As
 for point number we welcome Free,
 open-minded and absolutely impartial
 adjustment of all colonial claims,
 proposed by MT. Wilson and accpeted ijby the Entente governments and we are Joking forward to a discussion of
 those claims in the Peace Conference
 in the spirit outlined by the American
 President
 Regarding point number 6, we are completely disinterested concern | ing all questions relative to Russia except insofar as they concern our
 own frontier. Naturally, however, we } do not desire a spread of Bolshevism , over Germany and other countries. 'As for point number ', we are . prepared to pay for all damage done
 to the Belgian civil population and l ito have been perpetrated by German
 aggression The same applies to
 point number 8, relative to damage ! done civilians and their property ir north France. As for Alsace-Lor- daine. we could not consider 1t right
 ing a wrong if through the peace set
 clement a new wrong should be per
 mitted. That, however, would be the
 case If Germans were compelled tc
 become French against their will
 Likewise it must be emphasized 1T
 connection with point number tha.
 justice would forbid forcing Germans Q to become Italian subjects withou
 their free consent.
 Point No. ten, treating on tn = question of Austria-Hungary, ha # been subsequently, enlarged by tn, Q American government, in the sens
 that the Slav nationalittes of the for mer Dual Monarchy must be granted > not only autonomy, but absolute self Il determination. Justice will deman e that the same privilege be accorde e to Austrian-Germans. In the sam = manner, we consider points Il and 1 IA merely the demand of justice tha Iy I penn q sula and the Ottoman empire shouI be given their rights without distinc l. ton and the freest opportunity fo n elf-determination.
 "As regards point 19, justice com l. pels us to consent that present Ger i man territories inhabited by indis ,e putably Polish populations, shoul F form a part of new Poland, but jus ,e tice likewise compels us not to toler F ate that territories be placed unde ,e foreign sovereignty which are 1T ,e habited by indisputably German por ot ulation. Moreover, we would cor ,g sider it a wrong of the gravest cha1 m acter If, to satisfy Polish ambition ts East Prussia should be cut off fro1 .e the rest of the empire.
 to Concerning all territorial change
 to be considered by the Peace Cor ,n ference, we absolutely rely on poll ve No. of MT. Wilson's address ce Mount Vernon in which he emphasi u- ed the fact that settlement of all sue se questions must be made upon a bas
 Of free acceptance of settlement
 the peoples immediately concerned on Indeed a peace of right and justi' m pre-suppose that under guarantee re the League of Nations, the princip st of national self-determination will l :. made superior to all territorial inst he tutions.
 w As to the question of guilt for u
 war. the Garman government h.