Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-20

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Among the notifications also are
frontier rectifcations in West Prussia.
The third zone of tIe Schleswig
plebiscite is omitted in 1he new draft.
The Germans had charged that this
zone went further than Denmark her
self wished to go.
The Germans are allowed temper
airy Increase Of their army from 1OO.-
600 to 100000, which meets their plea
for a sufficient force to maintain law
and order in the transition period.
The revised document also contains
declaration of intention to submit
within a month of the signature Of
peace a list of those accused of VIOLA
tons of the laws and customs of war.
The German reply had denied the
allies right to extrad.te and try the ex-
kaiser or any othe, German citizens.
1t declared Germe4Iy's willingness for
an International neutral court to es-
tablish the fact of crime. the punish
ment to be left to the national courts.
Germany's claims regarding Danzlg
are rejected. Danzig IS made a free
city. It's inhabitants will be autono-
nous and do not come under Polish
rule. Clemenceau's covering letter ex-
plains that the city forms no part of
the Polish state.
Poland, however, by the treaty, has
been given certain economic rights"
in Danzig.
The German reply said:
"Danzig, a purely German tcTn,
must remain with the German empire.
to make it a free ciry and to sur
render certain Of its rights to Poland
would lead to violent opposition and
continuous state of war in the East"
The Germans, however, offered to
make Danzig. as well as Koenigsberg,
free ports.
Covers Foes Sins.
Like a Judge who, before modifying
sentence, wishes to- Impress upon
the prisoner the full weight Of his
guilt and pound into his brain the
fac1 that the leniency is really unde-
served, Georges Clemenceau. premier
Of France, explains the revised treaty
handed to Germany, lashes the van
quished empire with a bitter singing
Indictment, lest It's former cr present
masters, deeming clemency weakness,
rally once more for an attempt to turn
defeat into triumph.
History's most mOmentous peace
document. now revised beyond revi-
sion, is thus accompanied by the most
aggressive, tlle most flaying diplomatic
note on record 1t is indeed a cover
ing" letter for it covers all the sins of
the foe, all his dark deeds before and
during the war, and all the reasons
why he has been condemned and must
suffer for those sins. 1t is. at the same
time, a sharp rebuke to the Teuton
peace parliamentaires for 'utters fail
ing to understand the position in
which Germany stands today"
This fact, the French premier ex-
plains, forces him to open his letter
with - clear statement of the judg-
ment OF the world which has been
formed by practically the whole evil
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not under so many headings, but in
smoother and eloquent sequence. the
long series of crimes to which, he says,
the foe must turn If he seeks the rea-
son for the stern justice of the peace.
Germany, he says, tried for years
before the war to dictate and tyran-
nize over n suhservient Europe
She taught her subjects the doctrine
that might was right.
She armed feverishly by land and
sea and spread the faisehood that her
neighbors were jealous of her.
She developed widespread system
of espionage and intrigue all over the
world.
She kept Europe in ferment by
/ threats of violence,
She encouraged Austria TO declare
war on Serbia at AS hours' notice fully
aware that the conflict would become
general.
She conducted the war In savage
and inhuman manner.
ShSsviolated Belgian neutrality and
systematically terrorized that coun.
try's inhabitants.
She was the frgt to use poison gas.
She was the INST to bomb and shell
defenselesS to3-ns~
She caused -he deaths of 100000
men, and injuries and sufferings to 90
000.000 others.
Lust for Tyranny.
She did al. this-''to crafty her lust
fol tyranny ov resort TO war, and her
conduct "is Utmost unexampled In hui
man history"
Then Clemenceau continues:
1.-THE allied and associated powers be
lieve that they would be false to those
who have given their al 10 save the
freedom of the world If they consent
to trest war on any other basis than
as s crime agains' humanity and
right"
lie SCOTS at the German delegates
| charge that their country was tsI-Se
into laying down her arms by set of
principles which was not lived up to.