The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-06-27
ASSEMBLY At WEiMAa, 237 TO 1873,
GIVES IT'S ASSENT TO LAST
SURRENDER.
VICTORIOUS ALLIES PLEASED
Huns Must Agree to Unconditional Ae.
ceptanee-Attempt to Make Reser-
vations-Aliies Were Months
Settling Terms.


ely Sunday afternoon, by vote OF
237 to 1873, decided to sign.
The assembly also voted confidence
in the new government Of Herr Bauer,
236 to SO. Sixty-eight members aD-
stained from voting.
Before the vote of confidence was
taken Herr Bauer, the new premier.
declared that the government would
sign the treaty but without acknowl-
edging the responsibility of the Ger
man people for the war, and without
accepting the obligations contained In
articles 227 to $50 in the treaty relat- |
ing to the trial of the former emperor
and the extradition of other German
personages.
In announcing the decision of the
government to sign the peace terms,
Premier Bauer said before the national
assembly Sunday:
"The allied and associated powers
can not expect the German people tol
agree from inner conviction to peace
instrument whereby, without the pop
ulation being consulted, living mem
bers are severed from the German en-
pre- German sovereignty permanently
violated and undesirable economic bur-
dens imposed upon the German peo-
ple"
German Note.
Paris.-The German note. in which
Germany agrees to sign the treaty with
two reservations, was received by the
president of the peace conference at 5
p. m. The reply of the allies. through
the council of four, was transmitted to
the German plenipotentiaries at Yer
sailles.
The German note, in part, follows:
1.-THE government of the German re-
public has from the moment when the
peace conditions Of the allied and asso-
ciated governments were made known
to it let NO doubt exist as to the fact
that the government, in harmony with
the whole German people, must re-
gard these conditions as being in
sharp contradiction to the principle
which was accepted by the allied and
associated powers, on the one hand,
and Germany, on the other, as being
binding in accordance with the laws Of
nations for the peace before the con-
clusion of the armistice.
Prepare for Solemn Function.
Versailles. -Arrangements. already
have begun to take shape at Versailles
for the signing of the peace treaty.
Orders have been given to have every.
thing in readiness Tuesday, although
the ceremony, according to the Havas
Agency Is not likely to occur before
Thursday.
Result Work of Five Months.
The peace treaty at Versailles is the
fruit of about five months of confer
ences in which delegations from 81 al
lied countries and Germany patricipat
ed. The five leading nations, the Uni
ted States, Great Britain, France, Italy
conferences at Paris by five delegates
each, while the delegations Of Other
nations and British dominions are com
posed OF from one to three men.
The representatives of the United
States are President Wilson, Secretar!
, of State Robert Lansing, Henry White
: formerly American ambassador a
Rome and Paris; Colonel Edward M
House and General Tasker H. Bliss.
Yield to Superior Force.
Paris June 23-In declaring it's in
, tention to accept and sign the peac
r terms the government of the German
/. republic has sent the following not
to M. Clemenceau, president of tn
peace conference, through DR.. Hanie
Won Haimhausen:
Ready to Accetp and Sign.
: ''The minister of foreign affairs ha
!. instructed me to communicate to you
$ excellency the following. 1t appear
: to the government of the German RI
: public, in CONSERVATION at the las
s communication of the allied and ASST
q ciated governments, that these gov
u ernments have decided to wrest froI
. Germany by force acceptance of tn
peace conditions, even those which
n without presenting any material ST,
q at uINCTlluS tuc NC
s man people of their honor.
Il mo act of violence can touch tn
> honor of the German people. The &c
man people, after ,frightful sufferin
in these last years, have no means
defending themselves by external a
IL ton.
% Yielding to, superior force, an
e. without renouncing in. the meantin
g its own view of the unheard of il
justice of the peace conditions, I'll
government of the German republ
declares that it is ready to accept an
u sign the peace conditions imposed
" please accept, Mr. President, a
Us surances of my high consideration.
(Signed) won HANIEL."
Treaty May Be Signed Today.
n. The date for signing the treaty