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ter, accompanying the allies revised
peace terms to the Germans, is from
M. ClemenceaA president Of the peace
conference, to Count Won Brockdorff
Rantzau, president of the German
delegation. In this letter, M. Clemen-
ceau says:
"The allied and associated powers
! have given the most earnest consid-
Grafton to the observation of the
German delegates on the drafted
treaty of peace. The reply protests
against peace on the ground that it
conflicts with the terms upon which
the armistice of November II, 1918,
was signed and that it is a peace of
violence, and not peace of justice.
The protest of the German delegation
shows that they fail to understand the
position in which Germany stands to-
day. They seem to think that Ger
many has only to make sacrifices in
order to attain peace, as if this were
but the end of some struggle for
territory and power The allied and
associated powers, therefore, think it
necessary to begin their reply by a
clear statement of the judgment of
the world, which has been forged by
Practically the whole CT civilized
mankind.
Greatest Crime Against Humanity.
"In the view of allied and associa-
ted powers, the war which began on
August 1, 1914, was the greatest
crime against humanity and freedom
Of the people that any nation calling
itself civilized has ever consciously
committed. For many years, the rul-
| ers of Germany, true to the Prussian
tradition, strove for position of
dominance in Europe. They were
not satisfied with the growing pros
perity and influence to which Ger
many was entitled, and which all
other nations were willing to accord
her: they required that they should be
able to dictate and ,tyrannize over a
supservient Europe, as they dictated
and tyrannize dover subservient
Germany.
an order to obtain their ends they
used every channel with which to
educate their own subjects in the
doctrine that might was right in in
ternational affairs. They never ceas-
ed to expand German ornaments by
land and sea and to propagate the
falsehood that it was necessary be-
cause Germany's neighbors were jeal-
Gus of her prosperity and power.
Sought to Sow Hate.
"She sought to sow hate and sus-
picion, instead of friendship between
nations. The Germans developed a
system of espionage and intrigue
through which they were enabled to
stir up international trouble and to
make secret offensives, with the terri
tory of their neighbors whereby they
might, when the moment came strike
them down with greater certainty
and ease. They kept Europe in a
ferment by threats of violence, and
when they found that their neigh
bors were resolved to resist, they
determined to assert their predomin-
ance in Europe by force.
GAS soon as their preparations
were completed, they encouraged a
subservient ally to declare war on
Serbia on forty eight hours notice, a
war involving the control of the Bal
kans, which they knew could not be
localized and which was bound to
unchain general war.
I'm order to make doubly sure,
they refused any attempt at conci1ia-
ton and conference, until it was too
late and the world war was inevitable,
for which they had plotted and they
alone among the nations were ade-
quately equipped and prepared.
Recites Many Outrages.
"Germany's responsibility is not
confined to having planned and start
ed the war. She is no less responsible
for the savage and inhuman manner
IN which it was conducted. Though
Germany was herself, the guaranty
OF Belgium, Germany violated her
solemn promise to respect Belgium's
neutrality.
"Not content with this, thew DELHI
erately carried out a series of promis-
clous shootings and burninas with
the sole object of terrifying the in
habltans into submission by the very
frlghtfulness of their action. Thew
were the first to use poisonous gas.
Notwithstanding the appalling suffer
ing in entailed. They began the bomb
ing and long distance Smelling of
towns, for no military object, but
solely for the purpose of reducing the
morale of their opponents by striking
at their women and children.
They commenced the submarine
campaign with its piratical challenge
to international law and its destruct-
ION OF great numbers of innocent pas
ssengers and sailors in mid-ocean, far
IRON succor. at the mercy of the
winds and the waves and the vet
more ruthless submarine crews. They
drove thousands of women and chill
dren with brutal savagery into slav-
cry in foreign lands; they allowed
barbarities to be practiced against
their prisoners of war, from which
the most unciyilizad noonlo ,.o.la