The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-06-05
HUN SAYS TERMS
ARE UNREASONABLE
PEACE PARTY LEADER PRESENTS
ANOTHER NOTE TO THE HEADS
OF VICTORIOUS POWERS.
Declares That Peace Treaty as Framed
BY the Versailles Conference is
"More Than German People
Can Bear"

WaShingtOn.-Ex Execution OF the peace
treaty as framed by the Versailles con
ference is declared TO be more than
the German people can bear" by Count
Won BrOckdorff- Rantzau. head OF the
German peace delegation, In a note to
the associated governments outlining
the German counter proposals.
Count Won Brokdorff-Rantzau in his
note, the text of which was made pub
lie Sunday by the state department
further asserts:
The more deeply we penetrate into
the spirit of this treaty the more con-
WINGED we become Of the impossibility
OF carrying il out"
Count Won BrockdorffR antzau de-
clared that Germany knows that she
must make sacrifices In order to at
tain peace. Germany knows that she
has, by agreement, undertaken to make
these sacrifices, and will 20 in this
matter TO the utmost limits of her Gu
pacity.
Germany offers to proceed with
her own disarmament In advance OF
all other peoples, In order 10 show that
she will help 10 usher In the new era
Of the peace of justice. She gives up
universal compulsory service and re-
duces her army to 100000 men. except
as regards temporary measures. She
even renounces the warships which
her enemies are still willing 10 leave
in her hands. She stipulates, however,
that she shall be admitted forthwith
as state with equal rights into the
league OF nations.
Germany takes up her position I'M
reservedly on the ground Of the Wilson
program. She renounces her sovereign
right I'm Alsace-Lorraine, but WISHES
free plebscite to take place there. She
gives up the greater of the province
of Posen. the district incontestably
Polish in population. together with the
capital. She is prepared 10 grant TO
Poland. under international guarantees.
free and secure access TO the sea by
ceding free ports at Danzig. konigs-
berg and Memel. by an agreement reg
ulating the navigation OF the Nistula
and by special railway conventions.
Germany is prepared to ensure the
supply of coal for the economic needs #.
Of France, especially from the Saar
region, until such time as the French I
mines are once more In working or 1
der. The preponderantly Danish dis
tricts of Sleswig viii be given up to 1
Denmark on the basis of a pleblscite. I
Germany is prepared 10 make pay
ments incumbent on her In accordance
with the agreed program Of peace 10
a maximum sum Of one hundred bill
lions Of gold marks. twenty billions
by May l. 1926. and the balance eighty
billions in annual. payments without
interest.
FINALLY. Germany offers to put her
entire merchant tonnage IN a pool Of
the worlds shipping. 10 place at the
disposal OF her enemies part Of her
freight space as part payment Of re-
,aration. and to build for them for a
series Of years in German yards an
amount OF tonnage exceeding their
demands.
Germany Is prepared 20 devote her
,ntire economic strength TO the service
II reconstruction She wishes 70 CO.
operate effectively IN the reconstruc-
ion Of the devastated regions Of Bel
dunn and northern France.