Arizona republican., 1919-06-16

compulsory military service, If this is the beginning of a general reduction of ornaments and abandonment of com pulsory military service. A period of transition must be allowed during which Germany may retain such forces as are required to preserve internal order, before reducing her army to the 100000 limit. On condition that Ger many enters the league at once. she agrees to dismantle the fortresses in the west and establish neutral zone. But no special supervision of the pro- | cess Of disarmament. except that of the league. can be admitted and an eX- l tension of time must be granted after discussion Of the basis of equality
 Discuss Sarre Basin
 1 Oral negotiations to settle details with respect to the surrender Of war ships and aviation measures are pro l posed.
 l Much space is devoted to territorial questions, all the disputed territories 1 being taken up. Particular attention is ! pa.d to the Sarre district with it's im- portant coal mines. The population of thIs district, it is asserted. has been attached to Germany for more Jir7n a thousand years, and the people today are as German as they were a hdpdred ! years ago. The separation of the SaIre ] district, the Germans say, is 70 com pcHs9te France ,or coal destroyed in :Ee north.
 But it is contended, such a question can only be settled on an economic
 basis. not by tearing away a nation ally undisputed territory and degrading the league of nations by involving it in the transaction.
 The German government declines to 1 make any reparation in the form of l puuishment,ands still more emphaticaliy | declines to pass on to individual parts of the population the punishment in-
 tended for the whole community. The l annexation of the Saare district tC
 France would mean the creation of 1 another Alsace- Lorraine. Germany
 claims, and says the whole question
 must be reconsidered.
 Sul insisting that for the greater
 part Alsace Lorraine is German, the
 Germans admit that according to pres
 ent conceptions of right an injustice
 was committed in 1871, when the people
 were not consulted. Germany there
 fore has promised reparation. but il
 would be no reparation to cede AL
 sace-Lorraine with it's immensely in
 creased economic wealth, to France al
 once. A vote must be taken. allowing
 a choice between union with France
 union with Germany as a free state
 and complete independence.
 Germany has agreed to an independ-
 ent Polish state, but the terms of thu treaty include in it a number of totall, German towns and extensive German
 tracts of lands for military or econ omic reasons, without regard to ma tionality or history, it is contended l. This particularly applies to upper Si , lesia, and strong protest is entered Germany cannot consent to the sev
 erance of east Prussia from the Ger man empire. Germany is ready b cede to Poland such west Prussian ter ritories as are indisputably Polish. l - is demanded that Danzig remain wit . German empire but Germany is read. 9 to make Memel, Konigsberg and Dan l zig free ports, in order to secure |
 Poland the promised access to the ses l and to grant special transit facilitie > under specified conditions reciprocall applied.