The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-05
FIVE AMERICAN
POINTS LOST
Peace Treaty Will Reveal
Omission of Matters for
Which Nation Had Hoped.
COMPROMISES NECESSARY
To Put Through Great Under
taking-Terms to Be Given
to Foe Thursday.
(Herbert Bayard Swope)

(By Telegraph from n. Y. World,
Copyrighted)
Paris, May 5.--Unless the unex-
pected shall occur the full text of thc
peace treaty will not be ready fol
submission to the Germans by Mon
day There are still portions to be
reduced to textal form. Much print.
ing is yet to be done. am informed
by those in charge of the task tina
the odds are heavily against compile
ktion yat the time selected 1t lis prob
able, however, that the finished parts
will be handed to the Teutons fol
preliminary examination and transla-
tion, the remainder to be submitted
when ready.
When the treaty shaI be made pub
lie it will be found that several mat
ters are missing on which America
had set great hopes. The American
viewpoint would be gratified by the
adoption of a covenant for a league
VI HdIioH0t DuI tlSlo VIII pC lSSlC CT
over the omission of certain features
which probably failed to be included
owing to the necessity of COM
promises without which no such
great undertaking could be put
through. Five omissions VIII stand
out conspicuously, namely:
No nrohi hilton of S1Ibr11 ripeu
2. No definition of freedom of the
seas.
3. No provision for the codification
or even for the sanction of interna-
tional law.
4. No requirement for the destruc-
tion of the German fleet.
5. No delimitation of japanese su-
premacy in China.
Each of these features was among
the objectives publicly set by Amer
lea and no circumstances have arisen
to modify or to eliminate their value
or usefulness. 1t will be news that
the plan to interdict all submarine
construction and use has been de-
ciphered. 1t was formally approved
in principle and it was intended to
make it part of the treaty. At the
last moment France and Japan asked
for reconsideration, and in order to
avoid protracted argument, the mat
ter was not made part of the treaty
law, although Germany is to be
bound not to build or employ under
sea boats.
To Present Terms Thursday.
Jaris, May 5.-(A. PIT is now
certain, according to the French
press, that the treaty of peace will
be solemnly handed to Count Won
Brockdorff- -Rantzau, the German for
eign minister, by Premier Clemenceau
at Versailles on Thursday afternoon.
The contents of the first five chap
ters of the treaty have already been
outlined, dealing with the preamble,
German frontiers, territory changes,
German colonies and the military,
naval and aerial features of the pact
The sixth chapter will define the
status of prisoners of war and the
seventh will concern the responsible
ties of the former emperor and other
Germans for the war. The eighth and
ninth chapters will be devoted to pas
sages of the reparations problem and
financial clauses. The tenth will
deal with economic clauses, the elev-
enth with ports, railroads and water
communications the twelfth will
concern international labor legisla-
ton; the thirteenth will embrace
guarantees and the fourteenth viii
contain general clauses dealing with
ratification.
Marcel Hutin, of the Echo de Paris,
learns France will get absolute con-
troll of the mines in the Sarre valley
and a guarantee for their explolta-
t,op