Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-11-14
WON'T FREE DANz|G
UNTIL j. S. ACTS
Germany Holds Requirement Not
Operative Till Then.
REFUSES TO SURRENDER PORT
Will Wait for Ratification by Five
Powers-Evidence Against 1900
Germans for Offenses in Bel
oium Sent to Paris.

Paris, Nov. THE German govern
ment, according to information re-
ceived from the semi-official Deutsch
Allgemeibe Zeitung, does not consider
itself bound to surrender its authority
over the territory of the free city Of
Danzig until the United States shall
have ratified the treaty of peace.
The government, in a cOmmunica-
ton to this effect, addressed to the
Danzig municipality, takes the stand
point that the treaty of peace provides
for the surrender of the territory of
the future free city of DanZig to the
principal allied and associated pow
erS.
Await U. S. Ratification.
Such transfer, it holds, becomes OPP
erative not when the general treaty
comes into effect through the exchange
of ratification between Germany and
three of the principal allied and asso-
ciated powers, but only after the Unit
ed States, as well as the other four
principal powers, have deposited their
notifications.
Andre Radovitch, former prime min
lister of Montenegro, has been appoint
ed as one of the plenipotentiary dele
gates to the peace conference from the
Serbo- Croat-Slovene state.
M. RadOvitch. who was prime minis
ter in Montenegro during the early
stages of the war, broke with King
Nicholas of Montenegro and resigned
his office in January. 1917, owing to
the refusal of the king to abdicate in
favor of the Serbian crown prince.
He has since been member of the
party favoring the entrance of Monte
negro into the Jugo-Slavian state.
The supreme council discussed plans
for receiving a German delegation No
vember 10 to sign the protocol guar
anteeing the carrying out by Germany
of portions of the armistice conditions
which she has so far failed to meet.
1t is assumed that Baron Lersner,
head of the mission at Versailles, will
sign the protocol for Germany.
indictments of Germans Ready.
Brussels, Nov. 7.-Copies of the le-
gal evidence upon which the surrender
of 1000 Germans to stand trial for Of
lenses committed in Belgium during
the German occupation now have been
forwarded to the peace conference at
Paris.
The indictments are principally
based upon the executions of Belgian
civilians at LOuvain and other towns,
upon the depOrtations of Belgian work
men, upon the enforced labor eXacted
from prisoners of war. upon the treat
ment of young men who attempted to
cross the frontier to join the Belgian
armies and upon instances of pillage.
Asks Swiss to JOIN Russ Blockade.
Berne, Nov. 1.-THE federal council
has instructed the Swiss minister at
Paris to inform the supreme council
that the situation with regard to Swiss
intercourse with bolshevist Russia al
ready corresponds with the proposed
blockade in which the supreme council
asked Switzerland and other neutrals
to participate.
Switzerland had earlier decided not
~ JUN III Joiht iCpit " thS
of the peace conference that the neu-
trail nations as we'll as Germany and
the allied and associated powers
should institute blockade and cease
all traffic with the bOlsheviki. 1t was
then pointed out that as there was no
intercourse with bolshevist Russia
there was no occasion TO proclaim a
blockade.