Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-03-14
ALLIES W|LLDESTROy
HUN BIG WAR GUNS
ALLIES LEAVE THEM EQUIPMENT
FOR ONLY TWENTY ARMY
DIVISIONS.
WILL SIGN PEACE PACT FIRST
Teutons Must Pay Forty Billion DOL
lars as observation-disclosures War
ships Will Be Apportioned
Among the Victors.

Paris.-When President Wilson ar
rives in Paris this week he will find
the preliminary peace treaty ready
for his persual and sanction. The
five subcommissions which have been
preparing five different phases of the
peace terms have finished their Ia
bors covering military, naval, bound
airy separations and economic phases
and conditions to be imposed upon
Germany.
President Wilson is expected to go
over the preliminary peace terms be-
fore dealing further with the league
of nations covenant, as it is agreed
unanimously that peace must be es-
tablished with Germany at the ear
Hest possible moment in order to en-
place a bulwark against bolshevism
and permit world trade and industry
to resume functioning. Regardless of
attacks which may be launched
against the league it is believed here
the president will not be sidetracked
into reconsdering the covenant I'M
til after the preliminary peace terms
have been drawn up and accepted by
the allies and the associated powers
and are ready for delivery to the
German delegates.
The president, it is anticipated,
will consider first the military terms
of preliminary peace.
To Destroy Big Guns.
These provide that all war materi-
al which Germany manufactured and
accumulated during the war shall be
seized by the allies or destroyed,
except the equipment necessary for
20 divisions. All the larger ordnance
will be seized and destroyed. includ-
ing the 42-centimeter howitzers and
15-inch naval guns which shelled
Dunkirk and Fumes, and the big
Bertha which bombarded Paris. Thou
sands of extra machine guns, which
were feverishly manufactured dur
ing the close of the war, will be
destroyed, as well as flame throwers,
mine throwers, trench mortars, as
phyxiating gas projectors and all
other new chemical and diabolical
forms of warfare invented by the
enemy.
Control of the German aviation
service will be included in the mill
tary terms.
It is undecided whether Zeppelins
will be handled in the military or
naval terms of preliminary peace, but
in any event the size of the airship
fleet will be strictly regulated to
prevent the enemy gaining aerial
supremacy.
Only few government arsenals
will be permitted to manufacture mu-
nitons.
The military terms will proyide-the
army shall be divided into corps
probably numbering five and scat
tered over Germany-each corps com
prising three infantry and one ca
valry division The allies frankly ad
nit this standing army will be per
mitted only that Germany may keep
order internally. No troops may be
modified on the western or eastern
frontier without consent of the other
powers.
Apportion German Fleet.
The naval terms Of the peace were
taken up next and have been agreed
upon, so the president will merely
have to look at them. Following
French criticism OF the British plan
to sink the entire German fleet the
British admiralty has receded from
this position and prepared to appor
ton the vessels among the allies
upon q basis of the number OF ships
each power lost.
This will enable France to regain
its prewar naval position lost through
the fact that all its shipyards were
turned into artillery or. shell plants
SO there was no new construction
during the war.
The United States and Japan eacl
will receive one large German war
ship, 1t is expected. A certain. mum
Der of destroyers gunboats and ligh
cruisers will be returned to German,
and other destroyers will go to Bel
GUM, Rumania, Poland and the othel
new states created with. seaports at
tached.
All submarines will be destroyed
including the submersibles construct
ed and owned by every nation or tn
world as It has been definitely de
cided the submarine can not b.
used longer as means of nava
warfare. The ucase will INCLUDE
even Britain.
Dock Fire Loss $1,000 900.
Rio Janeiro-The damage resulting