Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-20
NEW TREATY IS
EVEN LONGER
Important Facts In New Peace
Pact Are Announced
Today
BIZ Associated Press.

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PARIS. June 19:-The alteration
and amendment incorporated by Tho
Council of Four in the revised treaty
make it a somewhat longer docu-
ment than the draft originally sub
mitted to the Germans and printed
, in the United States. 1t now COM
prises 214 pages, five more than the
original, and even this was effected
by closer paging. At various points
the drafting committee thought 10
adhere as far as possible to the orig
inal numbering of the articles and
contrived to make up for insertions
or omissions by combining or split
ting articles.
AS at first arranged the new in
strument still contains the original
fourteen parts and 440 articles.
The articles assuring Jilesian coal
and minerals to German industry
now read: POLAND undertakes to
permit for a period of fifteen years
the expectation to Germany of the
products of mines in any part of
upper Slesia transferred to Poland,
in accordance with the present treaty.
without export duties or restrictions
and permit the Germans to purchase
these products on the same terms as
the Poles"
In the revised draft. "the principal
allied and associated powers" under
take to establish Danzig as a free city.
This language in which the RESPONSE
bility of the five great powers for
the creation of the new city and state
is definitely assumed is substituted
for the original phraseology declar-
ing merely that 'DanZig is established
as a free city,
The new article which replaces the
original provision for the disarma-
ment Germany, No. 165, providing
for reduction to a specified point with
in two M onths now reads in the Eng
lish version: up to the time at which
Germany is admitted as a member Of
the League of Nations, the German
army shall not possess armament
greater than that fixed in this table
submitted in this treaty and con-
tinued Germany agrees that after
she has become member of the
League the armament fixed by the
table shall remain in force until mod
flied by the Council of the League.
Furthermore. she hereby agrees strict
ly to observe the decision of the coun-
Gil in this respect"
The bulkiest as well as the most i'm
portant changes revealed by COM
parison of the old and new drafts
are those relative to the new Polish
frontier and the Silesian plebescite.
The frontier changes correspond gen.
orally with those outlined in previous
dispatches, but bring the Polish from
tier nearer to Breslau than was at
first contemplated and give Poland
new section of the Prussian province
of Ponaramia in exchange for the
coast strip of the same province re-
turned to Germany although the
Council of Four planned for& time to
make all Poneramia German on his
toric grounds.
Some of the changes in this treaty
can be indicated only by reference
to maps of larger scale.
The provisions for plebescite in the
Silesian region shows that the vote
will be taken in virtually all of upper
Silesia except small areas in the
and nothern corners
which were awarded Internationally
to Czecho-Slovakia and Poland re-
spectively The plebeseite must be
held between the sixth and eigh-
teenth month after the signature of
the peace treaty. The same conditions
as regard the retirement of German
army and officials and the disband-
ment of workmen's soviets which were
included in the Schleswig- Holstein
and East Prussian plebescite provision
are found in that effecting Silesia.-
The significant article of the treaty
prohibits political prosecution by
either the Polish or German govern
ments for any activities during the
in Silesia.