Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-16
Reject Demand of Allies for
Trial of Kaiser; Refuse In
veStjgation By Commission
Deny indemnify.
I'M MEDIATE LEAGUE
MEMBERSHIP DEMANDED
Accuse Allies and United
States of Failing to Live Up
to Terms Agreed to in VIII
Son'S Fourteen Points,

Paris, June 15.-The German reply
to the peace treaty submitted at Yer
sailles May T, maintains that the
enemies of Germany have forsaken
the peace of justice to which they had
pledged themselves in the armistice
negotiations for a peace of might.
The reply. an official summary Of
which was made public here today,
protests against the proposed terms
individually and collectively, and de-
mands a return to the original agree
ments. 1t presses for verbal neEo-
tiations and states that Germany ex-
poets justice on q basis of equality
and reciprocity.
The reply follows the lines of the
summary of the German counter pro,
! posals given in Berlin at about the
! time they We're presented.
The document covers 119 pages
and includes covering letter by
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau under
date of May 29. which has already
| been published, and a second section
| of comments following the main out
| line of the original draft treaty. Two
| separate papers on legal and finann}al
! questions are included as part of the
general reply. Both English and
| French translations have been fur
/ nished in pamphlet form. the former
| totalling about 10000 words.
Alleges Condiction.
The reply begins with a detailed
| analysis of the legal basis of peace,
| alleges flaErant series Of contradic-
| tions to this basis and points out that
the results would be the complete en-
slavement of the German people and
/ a hat pP oil oh
! ished hopes of peace.
! In the counter proposals Germany
demands immediate admission to the
! league of nations as part of the spirit
of the armistice agreement as neCes-
sary for the acceptance Of the pro,
posed military, naval and air terms.
/ She then analyses the territorial
changes demanded. claiming that the
right of self-determinaton has been
wilfully violated throughout.
Germany bitterly assais abolition of
| all German rights outside of Europe
as irrecOncliable with the preliminary
negotiations and as wholly impossible
to a great people who not only have
supreme needs for markets and sup
plies, but who have shown themselves
capable of sharing the worlds task of
colonization.
tuItilDl
Germany is wholly unable to accept
the rcparatons commission set up by
the allies as involving an infringement
of her sovereignty. but proposes a CO.
operative German commission TO work
alongside it. She accepts RESPONSE
biHty only for civilian losses in oc-
cupied Belgium and France and
agrees to maximum payments of 100,-
| 600, 900, 900 marks, provided the other
terms as TO colonies. overseas trade
and territories are accepted as she
proposes.
As to deliveries of ships, raw ma
terials and machinery, Germany can
meet the allied claims only in part,
largely because of decreased produc-
ton.
Germany demands that in the eco
nomic provisions she be treated on a
basis of equality and reciprocity, and
not in the one-sided way outlined.
| She agrees to freedom of traffic on
German rivers and within Germany,
but always on condition that there be
no interference with German SOW
ereignty. Similarly with the renewal
of treaties lapsed through the war,
she expects reciprocal treatment,
rather than the assumption by the al
| lies of the right to say what engfge-
ments are or are not to become op-
erative again.
Stands by William.
The Germans refuse to accept the
trial of the former German emperor,
or to sanction his extradition from
! Holland on the ground that no Ger
man subject can be brought before a
foreign court without an established
law or legal basis, Similarly she can
not agree to eXtradite other subjects
accused of violations of the laws and
customs of war.
Instead, Germany proposes an in
| ternational court of neutrals to judge
the fact of crime. the punishment to
remain with the national courts.
Arguments presented against the
separation of purely German territory
from the empire and against the iso-
lation of east Prussia and making
Danzig a free city.
eIf-Dctermination Urged.
As to the league of nations, Germany,
the reply says has repeatedly been
promised that the league of nations
would unite the belligerents, conquer
ers as we'll as conquered, to secure
the world against further disasters.
But the status of the league has been
established without German help,
and Germany Is not even invited TO
join the league.
The right of self determination OF
nations has been proclaimed, says the
reply, by President Wilson, Mr.. As
quith, Mr.. Churchill Lord Grey, Sig
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