Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-29
GERMANS COUNTER
WITH THREE BILLION
INDEMNITY BILL.
CHARGE TREATY VIOLATES
PLEDGES AND DEMANDS THAT
COLONIES BE ETURNED-lN-
SYST FOURTEEN POINTS BE
CLOSELY ADHERED TO.

London, May 29-The German
counter proposals to the allied peace
terms were published in Berlin today
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen.
The reply asserts Germany's will
ineness to reduce her armament 10
a greater extent than demanded by
the allies
Germany the reply says, refuses to
accent the punitive terms fixed by
the peace treaty and it Is asserted
the allies cannot both accuse ana
sentence Germans guilty OF respoasl-
bility for punishable acts
The German peace delegation here.
it was learned today will present =
counter claim of 12.S50,000,0J0 marks
about 5000. 100000 for damage from
the allied blockade as an offset to the
allies. PREPARATION demands.
Counter Claims Outlined
Berlin, May 20. Germany com
ter proposals to the peace terms in
clude the following points, according
TO an unoniial summary:
Germany offers to disarm all Of
her battleshlps on condition that part
of her mercantile fleet be returned
10 her.
She proposes that there be no ter
ritorial changes without consultation
of the populations affected
Cesson of Upper Silesia and the
claims to East Prussia, West Prussia
and Memel are emphatically rejected
1t is stipulated Danzig shall become
free port and the river Vistula neu
tralized.
Allies Out in six Months.
Occupied territory is to be evacuat
ed within six months.
II the league of nations is estab-
lished with Germany as a member
Germany shall continue to administer
her colonies in accordance with the
mandatory.
Germany offers 10 pay 10000 00a,- +
coo, 600 marks $4,000 100000 in gold .
by 1925 as indemnity and to make an
nual payments from 1927 Onward to
a total not in excess of 100. 900 600 800
marks 25,o0o,0O0O0O in gold
Demand Fourteen points
The proposals in the opening sec
ion will argue for the existence o.
fermanys cOntractual right to
peace on that neutrality-suspicious.
pecce based on President Wilson
fourteen points. because the entente
nations agreed to a peace on thai
basis, AID neither Mr.. Wilson nor the
of any other allied
has since demanded tina
peace be established on any other
basis
The second section will denl with
the contradiction between the treaty
and previous assurances from Ell
tente statesmen and the general
ideas Of international right
The counter proposals will assert
the terms Of peace completely ignore
that Germany has replaced an i'm
perialistic and irresponsible govern
ment" by a strictly democratic on"
and that Germany in her proposal
for a league Of nations has adhered
to the principle of limitation OF
armame1ts.
Solemn assurances broken
1T would be difficult to see" one
section reads, what different cond
tons could have been imposed upon
an imperialistic government. The
solemn assurances of France, Great
Britain, and President Wilson that
the peace would be peace of right
and not Of violence, have not been
kept, especially regarding territorial
questions
. The reply complains that might
before right dominates the whole
treaty.
Objection is expressed to the de
mand that Germans be surrendered
for trial in enemy courts. the reply
contending that al impartial authority
ought 10 be instituted TO establish all
violations Of international law By
whomeyer committed