Weekly journal-miner., 1919-05-28
(From Saturdays Daiiy)
 By Associated Press.

| Inc reply Ot the allied and aSSOCla-
 ted powers, approved by the council
 of their principal members on May
 2, also was made public. Some ex-
 tracts showing the spirit of the reply
 follow:
 The allied and associated powers
 have received and nave given careful attention to the report of the com
 mission appointed by the German
 government to examine the economic conditions of the treaty of peace.
 This report appears to them to contain very inadequate presenta
 ton of the facts to the case, to be marked in parts by great exaggera
 ton and to ignore the fundamental
 considerations arising both out of the
 incidence and the results of the war,
 which explain and justify the terms
 that 1t IS sought to impose.
 The German note opens with the
 statemtnt that the industrial resour ces of Germany were adequate before the war for the nourishment of a population of 67,OOO,OOO and it argues
 as though this were the total for which, with diminished resources, she will still be called upon to pro vide.
 This is not the case. The total population of Germany will be re- duced by aboht 100000 people in the n-German territories, which it is proposed to transfer. It is the needs of this smaller aggregation that we are called upon to consider.
 Complaint is made in the German note that Germany is required to sur render her merchant tonnage, exist ing or in course of construction, and . that a prior claim is made on her ship building capacity for a limited term of years. No mentiOn however, is made of the fact that a considerable portion of the smaller tonnage of Germany is left to her unimpaired; and 1t seems to have entirely escaped ! the notice of her spokesman that the sacrifice of her larger shipping is the inevitable and necessary penalty i'm posed upon her for the ruthless cam paign which, in defiance of all laws and precedent, she waged during the last years of the war upon the mer- camille shipping of the world.
 As a partial offset against the 12,750,D00000 tons of shipping sunk, it is proposed to transfer 4,OOOOOO tons of German shipping. In other words, the shipping which 1t spro- posed to take from Germany consti- tutes less than one-third of that which was thus wantonly destroyed
 The universal shortage of mer- chant shipping is the result, not of Germany ,and no surprise can req sonably be felt if she is called upon to bear a share-of loss for which her own criminal deeds have been re 
 Great stress is laid on the propo- sal that on the eastern side Germany shall be deprived of the regions spe- ,ially devoted to the production of :; wheat and potatoes This is true. But the note fails altogether to ob- $ serve that there is nothing in the f peace treaty to prevent either the s production fthose com { in the area in question or heir importation into Germany On r he contrary, the free admission of i hese products of the eastern dis |" ricts is provided for during a period V f three years. ]
 Moreover. it is fortunate for Ger 9 many that those regions have lost " one of their productivity owing to he ravages of war. They have es- t aped the shocking fate which was V ealt out by the German armies to he corresponding territories in Bei- : ium and France on the west and k 'oland, Russia. Rumania and Serbia a n the east. There appears to be no g eason why their produce should not fl ontinue to find market on German C il" Ie
 The reply answers in whitening II ,rms every subject approached by Il le German note, in which it is lown that their phosphate argu- er lent is overdrawn, that the Huns D lined the French coal mines; the ? on ore plea is not correct; emigra- V on claims are unfounded and imag ary: German claims of losses are ypothetical; Great Britain lives nat rally under a system of importa on which the Huns claim would in them, and that military reduction ?, i'll reduce costs. br
 No Avenue of Escape h, But the first condition of any ar ch rccuperatiou would appear to be an at Germany should recognize the an cts of the present state of the world co hich sine has been mainly instru- co ental in creating, and realize that wi e cannot escape unscathed The rr are which she is being called upon bz
 bear of the enormous calamity st at has befallen the world has been h, porrioned by the victorious pow S, not to her deserts, but solely 10 IT ability to bear it.
 All tine nations of Europe are sui m ring from losses and are bearing O
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