The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-06-06
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 Ia
the associated governments outlining
the German counter proposals.
Count won Observation-Disclosures 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.
of carrying 1t out"
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau de
clared that Germany knows that she
must make sacrifices in order TO Mt
tain peace. Germany knows that she
has by agreement, undertaken To make
these sacrifices, and will go in this
matter to the utmost limits of her ca
pacity.
Germany offers to proceed with
her own disarmament In advance of
all other peoples, in order to show that
she will help to 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 to leave
In her hands. She stipulatcs, however,
that she shall be admitted forthwith
as state with equal rights into the
league of nations.
Germany takes up her position UNI
reservedly on the ground of the Wilson
program. She renounces her sovereign
right in Alsace Lorraine, but wishes n
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 to 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
mines are once more In working or
der. The preponderantly Danish dis
tricts of Sleswg will be given up to
Denmark ON the basis of a plebiscite.
Germany is prepared to make pay
ments incumbent on her in accordance
with the agreed program of peace to
Il maximum sum of one hundred bill
lions of gold marks, twenty billions
by May I, 1926, and the balance eighty
billions in annual payments without
interest.
"Finally, Germany offers to put her
entire merchant tonnage in pool of
the worlds shipping, to place at the
disposal of her enemies part of her
freight space MS part payment of re-
paration, and to build for them for u
series of years in German yards an
amount of tonnage exceeding their
demands.
The German delegation again makes
its demands for a neutral entry into
pabe acts and conducts An impartial
commission should have the right to
investigate on its own responsibility
the archives of all the beligerent coun-
tries and all the persons who took an
important part of the war.
Germany is prepared TO devote her
entire economic strength to the service
of reconstruction. She wishes to CO.
operate effectively in the reconstruc-
ton of the devastated regions of Bel
GUM nd northern France.
"Whpnever In this war the victor
has spoken to the vanquished, ut Brest-
but the seeds of future discord The
lofty aims which our adVersaries first
set before themselves in their conduct
of the war, the new era of an assured
peace of justice. demand treaty in
stinct with different spirit. Only the
cooperation of all nations, co-opera-
ton of hands and spirits. can build up
a durable peace. We are under no
delusions regarding the strength of the
hatred and bitterness which this war
has engendered, and yet the forces
which are at work for union of man
kind are stronger now than ever they
were before. The historic task of the
peace conference of Versailles is to
bring about this union"
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