Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-11
VERBAL DISCUSSION
OF PEACE ARTICLES
REFUSED BY ALLIES
Clemenceau Answers Com
plants Made by Dele
gates of Germany.
CLAIM DEMANDS COULD NOT
BE FULFILLED BY ANY NATION
Count Brockdorff Asserts MANY
of Treaty Conditions Even In
capable of Accomplishment.
PLAN MANY NEW PROTESTS
President Wilson to Deny Conflict in
Agreement With Fourteen
Points.
CLAIM DEMANDS COULD NOT
BE FULFILLED BY ANY NATION
PLAN MANY NEW PROTESTS
President Wilson to Deny Conflict in
Agreement With Fourteen
Points.

NV Associated Prcss.t
PARIS. May l0--No discussion of
their right TO insist upon the terms
OF the peace treaty will be permitted
by the allied powers. This is the re-
ply which Premier Clemenceau. chair
man Of tho peace conference. has made
10 the delegation representing Ger
many, which in addition 10 complain
ing about the stringency OF the con-
ditions. is seeking TO obtain a general
opening of verbal negotiations
THIS IN the reply made 10 Coun: Won
Brockdorf -Rant0,u, head Of the Ger
man peace delegation. who submitted
mands which could be borne by no
people. and many Of them incapa bic
President Wilson will personally d.
rect such answers as may be decided
upon concerning German inquiries in
President's fourteen points.
rms was announced in high quar-
,ers today In connection with he in
mann has given the German plenipo-
,1enttaries Al Versailles 10 address
OF the treaty with the fourteen points
and making countcrpropo9ll for YER
bal negotiations
Arc Not We'll Taken.
!, The view is held by the American
r. s
objections are not well taken that the
treaty Is contrary TO the residents
fourteen points on disarmament, and
explained that while the treaty con-
piins provision for Germany's dis
armament, this is preliminary to the
other nations and that the covenant
OF the league makes a general restric-
mo lam. OF ca armamen's; Herr sehelde-
rary to rfesideni fs @Ison9ss ftS psS fn
is met by The statement tina, the colo
MES are not delivered to the allies
but TO the league OF nations, which
administers them through manufactures
ior rb ,ne o oSmemi OF their native peoples
urday. u was reported, the question Of
what 10 do TO Germany should she re-
ipsc 10 sign the treaty, 1t was said
INC discussion was for the purpose of
being prepared for any eventuality,
however remote.
Course Not Learned.
1t is said that no iniimation tina,
has reached the allies. but they are
taking nothing for granted and the
discussion Of the subjec, by the re-
eVcentuall,y. howeyer. remote.
man foreign minister and chairman Of
the peace delegation. tried TO obtain
= personai interview with President
wilson Friday. bur was refused. &C
Ihe German peace plenipotentiaries
arc at perfec; liberty TO return TO
Eerlin and consul; their government IL
conference circles. Such q move. IL
made. would not mean the breaking
OF of the negotiations.
The Germans. 1t is said. enjoy. entire
freedom OF movement and diplomatic
immunity.
Work All Night Over Text.
The German delegation worked near
~ the whole night in preparing coun-
,er.propositions. the clicking OF type
writer's in their Offices not ceasing
until 4 o,clock this morning No com
the chiefs of the Allied missions sh e "
The foreign. office announced this
teen made by the Germans for with
drawal from Versailles.
The German cabinet council has
that Germany Will present without
delay to o., the allies, according to
may be made public today.
Austro-H Hungarian Preparations.
The question OF the reparations that
must be made by Austria Hungary was
considered Friday by President Wilson
.c cl They also discussed s IS the the
question Of financing Germany. Aus
.:ia-Hungary. Poland and other smaller
sarding both questions and were in
$structed TO work out. plan, for the
question OF reparations by Austria
Hungary raises the difficult problem
of apportioning whatever payments
are required among the different ter
ritories of the former empire. some
of which have been incorporated in
the territories of the allied and as
It is stated in authoritative quarters
that President Wilson's submission Of
France by America will be submitted
to the United States Senate merely by
the transmission of his letter to Pre-
the subject to the Senate. and will not
embrace treaty carrying out the en-
gagement. No treaty has as yet been
decision of the Senate for or against
the proposal.
Cannot Rush Into Light.
In brief epigrammatic speech at
touehed as the Future roie Of inter
national law in the development Of the
new order. of things.
zone of the things that has dis
turbed me in recent months" he said.
lis the unqualified hope men have en-
tertained everywhere Of immediate
hampered and oppressed them. You
cannot, in human experience. rush into
the light: You have to go through
on tho landscape. Wo must see to it
that those who hope are not disap-
pointed by showing them the processes
by which the hope must be realized
the process of law. the processes OF
things that have bound us in the past.
THE intelligent development Of in.
ternational law will be one of the
the future. IL we can now give to
international law the kind Of Vitality
CONTINUED on Second PaEe.)