Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-03-11

and conditions to be imposed upon
Germany.
Peace Before League.
President Wilson is expected to go
over the preliminary peace terms be-
fore dealing further with the league
of nations covenant, as it is agreed
unanimously that peace must be es-
tablished with Germany at the ear
Hest possible moment in order to en-
place a bulwark against bolsheyism
and permit world trade and industry
to resume functioning. Regardless of
attacks which may be launched
against the league it is believed here
the president will not be sidetracked
into reconsidering the covenant un-
til after the preliminary peace terms
have been drawn up and accepted by
the allies and the associated powers
and are ready for delivery to the
German delegates.
The president, it is anticipated,
will consider first the military terms
of preliminary peace.
To Destroy Big Guns.
These provide that all war materi-
al which Germany manufactured and
accumulated during the war shall be
seized by the allies or destroyed,
except the equipment necessary for
20 divisions. All the larger ordnance
will be seized and destroyed, includ-
ing the 42-centimeter howitzers and
l5-inch naval guns which shelled
Dunkirk and Furnes, and the big
Bertha which bombarded Paris. Thou
sands of extra machine guns, which
were feverishly manufactured DUR
ing the close of the war, will be
destroyed as well as flame throwers,
mine throwers, trench mortars, as
phyxiating gas projectors and all
other new chemical and diabolical
forms of warfare invented by the
enemy.
Control of the German aviation
service will be included in the mill
tary terms.
1t is undecided whether Zeppelins
will be handled in the military or
naval terms of preliminary peace, but
in any event the size of the airship
fleet will be strictly regulated to
prevent the enemy gaining aerial
supremacy.
Only few government arsenals
will be permitted to manufacture mu-
nitions
The military terms will provide-the
army shall be divided into corps
probably numbering five and scat
tered over Germany-each corps COM
prising three infantry and one ca
valry division. The allies frankly ad-
NIT this standing army will be per-
mitted only that Germany may keep
order internally. No troops may be
modified on the western or eastern
frontier without consent of the. other
powers.
=. Apportion German Fleet. E.
The naval terms of the peace were
taken up next and have been agreed
upon, so the president will merely
have to look at them. Following
French criticism Of the British plan
to sink the entire German fleet the
British admiralty has receded from
this position and prepared to appor-
eiOh thc fcooelS dluOuS tne allies
upon a basis of the number of ships
each power lost
This will enable France to regain
its prewar naval position los thrtogu
its prewar naval position lost through
the fact that all its shipyards were
turned into artillery or shell plants |
so there was no new construction |
during the war
The United States and Japan each
will receive one large German war
ship, 1t is expected. A certain num-
Der OF destroyers, gunboats and light |
cruisers will be returned to Germany
and other dectroyers will go to Bel |
GUM, Rumania, Poland and the other
new states created with seaports at
tached
All submarines will be DESTROYED. |
including the submersibles construct
ed and owned by every nation of the
world as it has been definitely de-
cided the submarine, can not be
used longer as means of naval
The ucase will include
even Britain.
R. r. Grant More Pay.