The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-02
PROTOCOL TO PEACE
TREATY in SENATE
President Submits Methods Of
Carrying Out Provisions>
Of Pact.
SIX POINTS ARE COVERED
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WARRINGTON, Aug. l.-President VII
son submitted to the Senate to-day
protocol supplementary to the treaty o
peace with Germany. 1t explains tn
method OF executing certain provision
contained in the financial and economi
department of the treaty. 1t is, in fact
precisely an Interpretation which tn
German representatives at Versailles ha'
asked for and which was granted them
The text follows:
with q view to indicating pre-
cisely the conditions In which certain
provisions of the treaty of even date
are to be carried out 1t is agreed by
the high contracting parties that:
1. A commission will be appointed
by the principal allied and asso-
ciated Powers TO supervise the de-
struction of the Notifications OF
Helgoland in accordance with the
treaty. This commission will be au-
thorlzed to decide what portion of the
works protecting the coast from sea
erosion are to be maintained and
what portion must be destroyed.
2. Sums reimbursed by Germany to
German nationals to indemnify them
in respect or the interests which they
may 10 tOuhSli " POcoCoo NhO
ways and mines referred to In the
second paragraph Of Article 1b6 shall
be credited to Germany against the
sums due by way of reparation. (The
paragraph referred to relates to the
Using Tao Tsinanfu Railway and
mines in China acquired by Japan
under the peace treaty.
Q. The list of persons to be handed
over to the Allied and Associated
Governments by Germany under the
second paragraph Of Article 22S shall
be communicated to the German Gov
eminent within a month from the
coming into force of the treaty;
4. The reparation commission re-
ferred to in Article $40 and para
graphs 2. 3 and of annex 4, can
not require trade secrets or other
confidential information to be d.
vulged.
8. From the signature of the treaty
and within the ensuing four months
Germany will be entitled to submit
for examination by the Allied and
Associated Powers documents and
proposals In order to expedite the
work connected with reparation and
thus to shorten the investigation and
accelerate the decisions.
6. Proceedings will be taken
against persons who have commit
ted punisha BILE offenses in the liquid
alton of German property. and the
Allied and Associated Powers will
welcome any information which the
German Government can furnish on
this subject.
Done at Versailles the twenty
eighth day OF June. one thousand
nine hundred and nineteen.
Message with Protocol.
Accompanying the protocol was thi
message from President Wilson:
"To the Senate:
II have the honor to transmit to
the Senate herewith. accompanied by
a letter from the Secretary OF State,
brief protocol to the treaty of peace
with Germany. The certified COPY
which I transmit has Just been re-
ceived by the Department of State,
and l am transmitting It without de-
lay.
The protocol originated in a writ
ten interchange of views between
the representatives of the allied and
associated Powers and the represent
atives of Germany, as q result of
which the representatives of Ger
many requested that certain expla-
nations of methods and facilities,
which 1t was proposed should be ac-
corded the German Government in
the execution OF the treaty, should
be reduced to writing and signed by
the Powers signatory to the treaty
so as TO form a definite and binding
memorandum.
"WooDRow WILSON"
Senator Fall On. M, one of tn
strongest of the opponents of the Leagu
of Nations, addressed the Senate on tina
instrument and on the treaty OF peac,
generally this afternoon. He said:
'Realizing that am a mental dwar
by comparison with the league propon
ents and some of it's supporters. admit
ting that in my insistence upon care To-
and consideration of the interests of tn,
people OF the United States of Americs
first. my political horizon is limited ant
my action to some extent selfish; ad
hitting that my pride is in being al
American and not follower of Kar
Marx. l propose to refer briefly to
few paragraphs in our history"
RecItes Country's History.