Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-15
Protest Is Drawn Up by Chief
Of ENJOYS Telling Big Four
That Certain Clauses Irre-
ConCiIabIe With Peace.
BELGIUM OBJECTS TO
NEW GERMAN BANNER
Boches Can Not Afford Gold
Clothing and Substitution
Of yellow Makes Flag Sim
liar to Belgian.
BY Lincoln Eyre.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
! fishing Co,
(The New York World. }


(The New York World.)
Especial Gable D0spatch.)
Versailles. May ls,--While his
| troupe Of trained journalists are
flooding the wires to Berlin with de-
| nunciations of allied harshness in the
peace terms, Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau has drawn up a communi-
cation to the big four designed to
demonstrate the irreconcilability of
certain clauses in the treaty with the
fourteen points.
Germany's chief envoy, following
out his instructions Just received from
Phillip Scheidemann, Is planning
| stuf born offensive against the Danzig
and Saar valley settlements the man
datory system ahd several OF the eco
| nomic and financial stipulations.
Refusal to Sign Expected.
| There is feeling here that the
campaign he means to inaugurate will
end in refusal to sign. German
press comment indicates that for the
Ebert -Scheidemann government to ac-
cept the treaty in its present form
would be fatal step politically, and
while rejecting 1t might also prove
disastrous, the Berlin cabinet would
at least have the satisfaction of GO
ing down in blaze of patriotic glory
u,
an initial move in his drive, will urge
upon the allies face to face discus
sion of the points at ISSUE contending
| that 1t is impossible to deal adequate
ly with so momentous a matter In 50
short a time by written communica-
tions.
Meanwhile the Austrians have ar
rived at Saint German. The chair
man of their delegation Is Karl ReI-
ner. The German plenipotentari,
yesterday welcomed Coun, Obern-
dorf, one of the original members Of
Germanys armistice commission, who
arrived here from Spa with half
dozen other economic and financial
experts.
Belgium Objects to Flag.
The Count brought his colleagues
word of Belgium's protest against
Germany's adoption of her national
colors. The new German flag was to
be red. black and gold, but gold
cloth being rare, yellow is being used
instead. Red, black and yellow are
the colors composing the Belgian BAN
ner.
Herr Won Meinel's economic author
1t es were to have met an allied arm
istice committee on the coal situation
yesterday, but the Germans asked for
a postponement until Monday, plead
ing pressure of work on the peace
treaty. Already the stenographers
In the Hotel des Reservoirs have COW
cred 10000 sheets of paper with trans
lations of the terms. In connection
with the Austrian envoys coming it
has been announced bv the French
foreign office that Voralberg, a small
Austrian district on the Swiss border,
will hold plebiscite Sunday to de-
ttrmine whether II shall annex itself
to switzerland. What the Swiss gov
eminent thinks about this Is not
known. Voralberg has a German
speaking Catholic population. and
many Swiss are adverse to increasing
he Tertonic majority in their country.
DELEGATION Works Feverishlv.
With the desperate energy OF a con-
demned criminal preparing an appeal
from judgment, Germany's peace mis-
sion set about the titanic task of ana
living the treaty handed them by the
allies.
Rartynu's Attitude Defended.
The Germans affected II be aston
ished AT the adverse criticism of
Brockdorffs demeanor at the Trianun
palace Wednesday. While they as
signed as the chief reason for the
counts failure to stand white adj
dressing the conference his enfeebled
heart and nervous debility, they de-
MED he had committed diplomatic
solecism ~ keeping his seat
At a catherine whore everv one was
seated at a table, they clairred that
standinv IN To sneak was optional. Al
both the Berlin and Vienna con-
gresses. they averred the plenipoten-
tiaries had snoken without rising.
The envovs have let II he known
that they deemed the treaty at first
GLANCE "nn niustificaliv harsh." There
is genera, impression that Prock-
dorff's sneech w"s mainly for homo
consumption. His desire ~ mt him
self on rnnn~d as demanding the re-
turn OF German prisoners of war ts
evidence of this. Those familiar with
the political situation IN Germany say
he would have formulated this de-
mand even had 10 he tnown that the
ai''ncs had alreadv agreed on the re.
rntriation of captives immediately
after peace Is signed.