Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15
ENEMY MUST PAY
Is BILLIONS, FIVE.
IN CASH, To ALLIES
Germany Must Issue Inter-
eSt-Bearing Bonds, Paya-
BILE in InstaIIments During
a Term of Fifteen Years

| PARIS April 14.-Germany, under
the peace treaty, must pay $4,000
commodities before May /, 1921. She
must also issue Immediately to the
| allied and associated governments
$20,000,O0o,000 of Understanding
| bonds. ... $3.50
The interest on the bonds until
1926 will be either two or three pef
| cent and after that date will be five
per cent, according to the present
| plan.
The bonds will be payable in in
stallments during period of fifteen
years. They probably will be kept
| in the control CT central commits
sion of the allied and associated gov
ernments so that they shall not be
| marketed in quantities sufficient to
break the price. . .-.
Germany also must obligate her
self to pay other amounts for dam
age done. appropriate to her means,
! to be determined by mixed COM
mission of representatives of the al
lied and associated governments and
of Germany, which shall report be-
fore May /, 1921. '''j..{
BRITISH CORRESPONDENT.
OUTLINES SARRE BASIN PLAN
LONDON, Sunday. April 10 Brit-
| ish Wireless SerVice)-The main
items of peace with Germany have
been substantially agreed upon by
the council of four, the Paris corr
respondent of the Sunday Observer
says he understands. The only prob
lem which they have not yet app
preached is that of the Bohemian
border, he says. This problem, he
points out, is an intricate one, as
| it raises the question as to whether
a considerable number of Germans
4 must be included in the Czecho-
Slovak state.
"As for the other points concern
ing the German borders" continues
| the correspondent, 1T seems that it
only remains now to decide upon
some minor questions The question
by setting up kind of autonomous
state in that district, while including
| it in the Polish customs area"
AS for the Sarre valley. the CORE.
spondent says he understands Presi-
dent Wilson has definitely agreed to
the proposal originated by Premier
Lloyd George, which essentially con-
| sists in giving France ownership. OF
the coal mines while making the
Sarre district neutral state under
the guarantee of the League of MAJ
lions. The questions of PREPARATION
and disarmament in the Rhine re-
gion, he says, seems also to have
been more or less settled in their
broad outlines. Moreover, he points
out, the covenant of the League or
Nations has been re-drafted, "one OF
the main amendments consisting in
as being In conformity with the prin-
ciple of the league The correspon-
dent continues 5'a y l@is@it
whether the treaty will be ready
by Easter is, of course, another qtes-
ton. The important fact is, how
ever, that the council of four seems
to have agreed on all the funda-
mental points. This is a distinct
improvement"
On the subject Of the western Dor
der Of Germany, the correspondents
states he has it on good authority
that Premier Clemenceau's main OBJ
ject has been from the first day of
the conference to pave the way to
settlement that should be entirely
based on that idea Of right which
since 1870 has been embodied in AL
sace-Lorraine," and that the settle
ment of the Czecho-Slovak question
should be entirely acceptable to the
Eng1ish-sp speaking democracies. r.
i "Those who believed that he would
try to annex to France the whole
or part of the left bank of the
Rhine entirely misunderstood his i'm
tention," the correspondent declares.
Truly enough. when the question of
the western border Of Germany came
up before the council of four he
|
the frontier which would amount to
re-establishing the French border of
1914. To understand such demand
it must be recalled that the compare
ltively small district extending be-
tween the border of 1870 and the
border of 1914 includes places SUCH
as Sarrelouis, where eighty per
cent of the inhabitants are said ito
be in favor of reunion with France.
"Still, as objection was raised in
side the council of four that such
a step might be interpreted as
amounting to annexation, the French
government made it clear on March
20 that it did not want to maintain
it's demand in favor of Great Britain
and America deemed it to be OBJ
jectionable, Since that date thu
French government has confined it,
self to claiming that the coal or
the Sarre valley was due to France
as a part of the reparation.
"This principle was agreed to by
all parties, as it is recognized that
the transfer of the mines to France
is but inadequate compensation for
the havoc deliberately wrought in
northern France by the Germans.
was suggested last week by Mr.
Lloyd George. 1t consists in giving
the Sarre a kind of autonomy very
much resembling that of Luxembourg.
Under such a scheme the local au-
thorities would remain free from any
interference on the part of either
the French or the 'rman- admin
istration, the political status of the
distinct being, besides, guarantees
by the League Of Nations. That sug
gestion was carefully worked out by
a subcommittee. The scheme was
laid before the council of four early
last week, and heartily supported by
| Mr. J1OVd George,