The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-16

istice negotiations, for a peace of might.
 Demands Admission to League In the counter proposals Germany demands immediate admission to the League of Nations part of the | spirit of the armistice agreement and as necessary for the acceptance of the proposed military, naval and air | terms. She then analyses the terri | torial changes demanded. claiming 1 that the right of self-determinatio | has been wilfully violated throughout. 1 Germany bitterly assails the abol- ! ition of all German rights outside of Europe as irreconciIable with the | preliminary negotiations, and as wholly impossible to a great people,
 who not only have supreme needs
 for markets and supplies. but who
 have shown themselves capable of | sharing the worlds task of coloniza- 1 ton.
 1 Germany agrees to the basic idea i iregarding army, navy and air regula- tions, and especially compulsory mill ! tary service.
 1 The annexation Of the Sarre district to France would mean the creation or
 another Alsace-Lorrains, and Ger | many claims that the whole question
 must be reconstdered-
 | Still insisting that for the greater part Alsace-Lorraine is German, the | Germans admit that according to pres ents conceptions of right an injustice was committed in 1871, when the peo- pie were not consulted A vote must be taken allowing a choice between union with France union with Ger
 mann a free state, and complete in | dependence.
 Germany has agreed to an independ- ent Polish state, but the terms of the l treaty include in it a. number of to- | tally German towns and extensive
 German tracts of land for military or ! economic req soris, without regard to
 nationality history. This particu- larly applies to Upper Silesiar and | strong protest is entered.
 II Germany is wholly unable to ac- | cept the separations commission set | up by the Allies as involving an in | fringement of her sovereignty, but II proposes a. cooperative German com
 mission to work alongside it. She accepts responsibility only for civil
 Ian losses in occupied Belgium and
 France and agrees to maximum pay
 ments of one hundred billion marks
 provided the other terms as to col
 onies, overseas trade and territories
 are accepted as she proposes.
 Asks for Reciprocity. II Germany demands that in the eco
 homie provisions she be treated 0n a
 basis of equality and reciprocity and l 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 sov-
 ereignty. Similarly with the renew
 al of treaties lapsed through the war, | she expects reciprocal treatment,
 rather than the assumption bG the II Allies of the right to say what agree | ments are or are not to become op l erative again.
 1 The Germans refuse to accept the i trial of the former German Emperor, | or to sanction his extradition from | Holland on the ground that no Ger i man subject that be brought before | a foreign court without an esta blish- ] ed law or legal basis. Similarly she 1 cannot agree to exfradite other sub
 jects accused of violations of the laws l and customs of wa Instead, Ger | many proposes an international court | of neutrals to judge the fact of | crime, the punishment to remain with 1 the national courts.
 The labor clauses are not satisfac- 1 tory to Germany and as a, result she l again proposes an international con- ference to examine the allied and as | | posals and the Berne resolutions. Opposes Rhine Settlement A bitter protest is entered against the occupation of the Rhine provinces | and the demand made that all allied | troops be withdrawn within six | months of peace. The occupation as | proposed, it is contended, would l break up German economic life and ] allow the prejudicing of German in ' s- 1P Da1 1 gium.
 \ The summary makes no attempt to | criticise any statements of facts or I figures made in the reply, inasmuch ] as the German delegation alone is re- sponsible for them. It is stated that many of them, especially as to the
 eastern frontier, are disputable, if not absolutely incorrect
 I Legal Basis of Peace
 Under the hex ding 'the legal basis of peace" the German delegates re- capitulate the interchange of com
 naunications with President Wilson between October 5, 1918, and the armistice, November II. As a result
 of these they consider that Germany ]: as basis of peace has expressly ac- : cepted President Wilson's fourteen
 points. and nothing else. Acceptance l: of the terms of the armistice, it is
 
 honest acceptance of these conditions l: by Germany.
 Germany cannot consent to the : severance of East Prussia from the German empire. Germany is ready to
 cede to Poland such West Prussia n
 terrftorftfes as are indfsputably Pol tsh. It is demanded that Danzfg re-
 main with the German empire, but
 Germany is ready to make Meme1. IKonfgsberg and Danzfe free ports in order to secure to Poland the prom ised access to the sea. and to grant
 special transit facilities under speci-
 fled conditions reciproca11y applied, If any German territory is u1tf- mately ceded to Poland, says ths re- ply, Germany must protect its former nationals. This is declared te be all
 the more necessary because the Poles
 have not so far shown themselves to
 be trustworthy protectors of the na-
 tional and religious rights of minor ities. A commission is demanded to