The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-12
Lloyd Georges Aid Reports
That All Points in Dispute
Are Cleared Up.
ONLY DETAILS REMAIN
Germans Threaten to Sign Only On
Wilson's Fourteen Points-Al-
legged Hun Anarchist Plot
Monroe Doctrine Safe.

Paris, April 12-The peace confer
ence has reached an agreement on all
questions concerning peace with Ger
many, reparations, indemnities and
the frontiers of the Rhine and Poland,
according to an interview in the Petit
Journal with the private secretary OF
Premier Lloyd George. Certain de-
tails remain and it is added they will
be settled in two or three days.
The German delegates will be sum-
moned to Versailles within two or
three weeks.
The British premier, his secretary
is quoted as saying, thinks that IL
the Allies agree as well at present
as during the war, the achievements
of the peace conference will be lasting
and numerous dangers, including boil
shevism, will be averted.
Threatens Refusal to Sign.
Berlin, April 12.-Count Won Brock
dorf-Rantzau, foreign minister, speak
ing before the National Assembly at
Weimar, said Germany would not sign
a peace treaty which deviated in any
essential from President Wilson's IA
points.
Monroe Doctrine Protected.
Paris, April 12.-The league of ma
tion commission has adopted new
section specifically providing that the
Monroe Doctrine is not to be affected
by the provisions of the covenant.
American commissioners stated that
the Monroe Doctrine was definitely
named in the provision guaranteeing
that it will not be affected by the terms
in the covenant
The adoption of the section exempt
real exemption made during the meet
ing. President Wilson offered the
amendment and made a plea for it,
saying he believed the doctrine was
protected under the terms of the COW
enant as they stood, but because of the
demands for protection he felt 1t i'm
perative that the amendment should
be added. The amendment was adopt
ed without prolonged opposition.
Anarchist Plot Against Peace.
Paris, April Confirmation of a
bolshevist plan to seize Germany as
the initial step in worldwide prole.
tariat revolution has been received in
government circles here, it was an
nounced
According to available information,
the bolshevik scheme is that sparta
cans with possible acquiescence of the
will
sumo administrative power in Ger
many during or Immediately after the
Versailles congress.
Once in control, the spartacans will
greet the Allied demands with folded
arms and general attitude of do
what you like, but as far as we are
concerned we will do nothing"-mean-
ing they will refuse to pay indemnities
or carry out any of the other peace
terms.
The spartacans hope thus to force
the Allies to occupy central Europe,
which they believe would embitter the
Allied peoples against their govern
ments.
With the Allied armies In the interi-
or Of Germany, the spartacans would
carry on an active propaganda to con-
vert the troops to bolshevism. Conf
dent Of their success in this, the spar
tacans believe the troops returning to
their own countries would carry the
seeds of revolt into a soil made fertile
by miscarriage of the Allies peace
plans, combined with the general so.
cial unrest In the world