Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-13
rrT-FsDAy MAY 10, 1911
WHAT THE TREATY DOES TO
GERMANY.

The German delegates have LETT
Versailles in order to consult their
government on the terms of the treaty.
German statesmen and newspapers are
making the air resonant with their
wailings over the hatred the" say is
being displayed BY the allies and the
United States. There are frequent
declarations that the treaty will not
be signed. President Wilson has re-
fused to grant a private interview to
the head of the German delegation.
Premier Clemenceau has told the Ger
mans that no oral discussion of the
terms will be permitted.
Marshal Foch has left Paris for the
front.
No doubt now remains that the
treaty is the most comprehensive, the
most uncompromising. the most dras-
tic that ever was drawn for the con-
clusion of war. The terms which
Germany is required to accept reach
a reassuring total of just severity.
The final massing together of the
vance. constitutes what will be known
in history as the most formidable
sentence civilization ever has passed
upon a nation guilty of outraging her
laws.
If any part os the German people
still thought the German delegates
had gone to Versailles to negotiate
peace, the awakening must have
been a rude one. For German ears
the treaty is a stern instrument of
dictates and commands
Briefly recapituated, the treaty
provides that Germany shall
Restore Alsace- Lorraine to France;
cede Belgium 2S9 square miles of ter7
ritory between Luxembourg and Hol->
land surrender the Saar basin and
Danzg; give IN most of Silesia, Posen
and West Prussia to Poland; recognize
German Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and
Poland as wholly independent; give up
all German colonies and renounce all
German territorial and political rights
outside of Europe o., p
Cut down the German army to
100000, including officers; reduce the
Germany navy personnel to $1,000,
and the German navy to six small
battleships, six small cruisers and
twelve torpedo boats build no more
submarines. nor, after October |,
airshipsy abolish consumption, one of
the most important provisions OF the
entire treaty; destroy all German
forts within fifty kilometres of the
Rhine: demolish the great German
naval base at Heligoland; open the
Kiel canal to all nations; turn over
the fourteen Garman submarine cables
TO the Associated Powers; stop all i'm
portation and expectation of war ma
terials.
Deliver up for punishment those
Germans who have violated the ac-
cepted laws of civilized warfare; agree
TO the trial of the former kaiser by
an international court.
Pay all civilian damages, beginning
with an initial payment Of about five
billion dollars; pay shipping damages
ton for ton: pay for all damages TO
allied and associated governments and
nationals-the total bill for PREPARATION
to be determined and presented not
later than May /. 1921. 1t will take
long time to figure just what Ger
many must pay. Germany is required
to sign in blank.
Boiled down to the bare bones, the
parts of the treaty that deal with
Germany and what is required of Ger
many make a long, grim catalogue of
imperatives, the number and severity
of which furnish a final and impress
sive measure of the defeat a militaris-
tic GERMANY has suffered and of the
iron grip in which a wiser world is
minded to hold militarism hence
forth
To the league of nations Germany
must subscribe in principle but with
out membership. This carries with
significant clearness the implication
. that Germany is signing a dictated
peace which puts her on probation.
Again the treaty provides that allied
troops shall remain in occupied parts
of Germany until complete repara-
ton is made but that the extent of
the occupation may be reduced at the
end of each of five-year periods if it
is shown that Germany is regularly
complying with her obligations. Mean
time she must pay the expenses of
the allies in maintaining troops in
Germany.
Provision is also made for freedom