Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-29
SEEK TO Be MADE
|. MANUFACTURES FOR
FORMER COLONIES
Complain That Peace Coun-
Gil Ignores Change in
Government.
SUMMARY OF COUNTER
PROPOSALS ANNOUNCED
Germany Will Ask Membership
in League of Nations
When Formed
SEVERAL CESSToNS REJECTED
Berlin Powers Demand Upper Silesia
ana East and West Prussia Claims
BE Abandoned.
SEVERAL cEssIoNs REJECTED
Berlin Powers Demand Upper Silesia
ana East and West Prussia Claims
BE Abandoned.

tBv Associated rre,e
BERLIN. May 2S.-Ciermanys coun-
ter-proposais TO the terms OF the pescs
treaty presented 10 her plenipotcnti
aries at Versailles include the follow.
ins points. according to an unof1cisl
summary:
Germany offers to disarm all of her
battleships, on condition that mar.
Of her mercantile fleet be restored TO
her.
She proposes that there be no terri
torial changes without consu;ta,ionsof
the populations affected
The cession OF upper Siies;a and ,be
claims to East Prussia West Prussia
and Memel are emph8;ically rejected.
1t is stipulated that Danzis shaI,
BECOME free port and the River Wis
tula neutralized.
Occupied territory is to be evacuated
within six months.
the league OF nations is estab-
t!sneu, WIN Germany as member
Germany shall continue TO administer
her colonies IN accordance with the
principles OF the league as Its MANDY
tory. -
Will Pay 1Oo,OOo. .o0o.ooo Marks.
Germany offers to pay 2o.ooo. .oOo, on.
Indemnity and TO- make max ennuaI enr aI2s 'n,S AZ AZ
in excess, Of .ioo, 900, 200 marks mark nm In
D.
The.German counter proposals to IN.
terms Of the treaty OF peace will in
the opening section argue for the ex-
to peace based on President Wilson'S
fourteen points. because the entente
mai nnt'ons nGi, 1greed to peace on that basis
sentatires OF any other allied govern
ment have since demanded thai peace
De rs established slnd on any oiner basis.
the contradiction between the draft OF
the treaty and previous assurances
eral ideals OF International right
Complain Change IL Ignored.
The counter-proposals will declare
that the terms OF peace completcly
ignore the fact that Germany has re
sible government" by a strictly demo
cratic one. and that Germany in her
pI9posais for league of nations has
adnered TO the principle Of limita
1T would be difficut to know" one
section reads, what different cond-
an imperialistic government. The
solemn assurance OF France, Great
Britain and rre sident Wilson that the
not Of violence have not been KEEP.
especially regarding territorial aues-
tons
Tho reply complains that might be
fore right dominates the whole allied
treaty
on1eCts 10 SuTTcnnCrinE scrmnnH.
objection is expressed TO the de-
mand that Germans be surrendered for
trial in enemy courts. the reply con.
tending that m an impartial autheritX
violations Of internationa, law Ey
whoever committed.
1t is declared by the Germans that
although toe speech made hy Pres
dent Wilson in October 1915. recoy-
ni%cd that responsibility for the wsr
rested on the entire European system.
- tsnn
knowledge that she and her allies
were responsible for all damage suf.
fered In opposing countries. 1t is as
some of the allied and associated
powers. such as Italy and Roumania.
entered the war for the sake of ter
ritortai conquest
me German counter-proposals argue
that there is no basis of right for lilo
obligation to make compensation which
rs TO ne imposed on Germany. Com
plant is made that the amount of com
pensatton is to he liked by hostile.
commission. whose powers would Ell.
a a hie u to administer Germany as a
With the innate right OF
nations.
Says Lengue Is Hostile Coalition.
The statutes of the league OF ma
Gons. 1t is further asserted. contra.
she governments opposed to German
and the league is merely continua.
non or the enemy coalition. il is add
I'd that there is no realization Of .
real league of nations and that in It's
present. form the league re-es;ablishes
IN effect the alliance OF 1915
The reply maintains that the Greatly
shows Germany as nation which is
simply to be destroyed and adds
This is a complete repudiation OF In,
idea that every nation has a right 10
existence and violates the right or
self eif-determinatton"
The statement then details LONG oil.
jections TO the proposed treatment OF
the Saar region. Eupen. Malmedv
Alorosnet and Alsace and tho caster,
frontiers, and argues that the worsl
of the disregard Of tn!
right or self determination ia the
separation Of Danzig from the German
empire Other abrogations OF thia
right, as cited In the statement. IN.
GUIDE the refusal to allow the millions
oi Germans In German Austria to unite
With Austria, while other millions OF
Germans are forced to remain unde,r
the, new Czecho -Slovak state
Charges Financial slavery.
Section III. of the counter. r.pronosals
,.eiterates the declaration that the
traft OF the peace treaty is in sharpest
contradiction TO that basis OF right for
| lasting peace. FOR n right which
vas agreed upon" 1t says the treaty
involves destruction of German econo.
nc lie and subjects the German peo-
,le TO financial slavery "unparalieied
the history OF tho world
IL such treaty came into force, l,