The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-29
ALLIES TO GET
ANSWER TO-DAY
One or Two Copies of German
Reply VIII Be Presented
to Clemenceau.
ENEMY TO SUBMIT BILL
Rantzau, Paris Hears, Will
Ask Payment for Block
ade Damages.
BY the associated Press.

PARIS May 2s.-Only one or two
copies of the German counter proposals
to the peace terms, printed In German
Will be handed to the allied and asso-
ciated representatives at Versailles to-
morrow. 1t is probable the document
has been translated into French and
English, but the Transitions have not
yet been printed. When ready 800
copies will be furnished the allied lelc-
CATION.
1t was learned to-day at Versailles
that the German peace delegation will
present counter claim of 1850 OO0, 900
marks approximately s3,212,5OO 900
under normal rate of eXchange) for
damage from the allied blockade as an
offset to the reparation demands of the
allied and associated Powers.
IA despatch from Karl II. Won Vie
gand. the stan correspondent of THE
SUN in Berlin, on May gave a detailed
statement of the counter claim which
was prepared by a special bureau under
the direction of Count Won Bernstorff.
In her itemized bill Germany listed her
claims against the hunger blockade
under the titles OF deaths due to NAL
nutrition. loss OF populations produc-
tivity. feeding up" the population, re-
plenishing live stock. industrial value OF
lives lost by starvation. ITO rebuild enact
ated Germans and miscellaneous
Should the Germans open this field of
inquiry the Allies are prepared to reply
effectively by reference to the Ear greater
decrease OF births and increase of deaths
in France. Belgium, Poland. Rumania
and Serbia as n direct result OF the Ger
man war measures.
The Allies possess the German official
figures showing that the milk production
in Germany during the war was never
below 45 per cent. of the normal pro-
duction, which would be sufficient to
have maintained the children had they
received It.
The failure of German cities to re-
ceive more. than 10 or 15 per cent. Of
the normal milk supplies was through
no fault of the blockade, il is pointed
out, but was due to the German system
OF distribution. The lack of rubber and
cotton for hospitals, likewise, repre-
SCI ted the active choice Of the German
authorities, who devoted to military and
other purposes imports OF rubber and
cotton considerably in excess OF the
he Spital requirements.
The same augmentation will be ap-
Piled to the scarcity Of synthetic drugs
due TO the conversion of German
chemical plants TO war purposes.
request by Germany and AUSTRIA
that the faculties of medicine of the
various Spanish universities send dele
gates to report the effects OF the famine
due to the allied blockade has been met
mainly with negative response. The
Universities OF Barcelona Grenade and
Valencia have refused to cooperate in
such movement The University Of
Seville decided TO send delegate, hut
before the university's representative
had left the Spanish Government op-
posed his departure on the ground that
the university ought not 10 intervene in
an essentially political afrair.
II was reported here to-day that
Count Won BrockdOrff- RantZau, head of
the German peace delegation, would
leave for Spa Immediately after the
presentation of the German counter pro-
posals. The Secretariat of the Peace
ton of any such intention on the part of
the German plenipotentiary.
The first group of attaches of the
German peace delegation to return to
Germany left this afternoon. Herr Kuno
and Herr Arnhold, financial delegates,
were with the party. which numbered
twenty-five.