Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-21
This is Given as Hi. Answer
To German Note on Re-
parations Made Public In
Paris; Rantzau Says Ger
mans Did Not Start War
and That Present Govern
ment Cannot Be Held Re-
sponsible for Former
Faults.

Brockdorn-R head of the
German peace delegation, has
asked an extension Of time for
Germany,to present her reply re-
garding the peace terms.
The count stated that further
notes were being prepared and
that it would be impossible to
complete them by p. m.
up.
1t is believed, says the Havaa
Agency, that the request for the ex.
tension will be granted.
The note says the Germans desire
more time to study questions which
they have not yet had an opportunity
to examine.
There is no official intimation re-
garding the decision of the Allied and
associated powers on the request.
Facts in the Note.
Paris. May 21.-1t is too late for
gression in the war and her RESPONSE
bility for it. This declaration is made
by Premier Clemenceau as president
Of the peace conference in replying to
the German note on reparations, the
text of which with the reply, was
made public last night.
The argument put forth by Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau was that
Germany did not start a war of ag-
gression, that the German people
were convinced they fought defen-
sive war and that the present German
ible for faults of the former German
| government
Premier Clemenceau takes up the
points made by the German delega-
! ton and declares that the German
soverr,rnen iast November made no
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Ihe Allie6 and assoctAted GOVERN
ments anirm and Germany accepts
Inc responslbility of Germany and
ner alnes Tor causing all. the loss and
damaGa TO which the Allied and as
soclaied governments and their ma
tonals nave been subjected as con-
sequence or the war imposed upon
them by the aggression of Germany
ana her alles.
NOW the obligation to make rep
aratlon has been. accepted by Ger
many by virtue OF the note from Sec
retary or state Lansing. Of November
., 1913, independently OF the ques-
ton OF responsibility for the war The
German delegation cannot admit that
there could arise out OF responsible
lty incurred by the former German
government in regard to the origin OF
iled and associated powers to be in
oemnned oy Germany Tor losses SUI
1ered during the war.
The representatives OF the Allied
ana associated states have moreover,
declared several times that the Ger
man people should not be held re-
sponslble for the faults committed by
their governments The German peo-
pie did not will the war and would
not nave undertaken a war of ag-
gresslon. They have always remained
convinced that this war was for them
a defensive war.
The German delegates also do not
share the view of the Allied and as
sociated governments in regard to the
origin of the war. They cannot con-
slider the former German government
as the party which was solely or
chiefly to blame for the war. The
draft Of the treaty Of peace transmit-
ted by you contains no facts in sup-
port OF this view; no proof on the
] subject is furnished therein. The Ger
man delegates therefore beg yolAsta
communicate to them the report
tne commission set up by the All