Evening star., 1919-05-11
HUNS REbUFFED
BYALL|ESSTAND|NG
FIRM ON TERMS
Will Not Discuss Their
Rights-Germans Declare
| Demands Unbearable.
BIG FOUR LAYS PLANS
FOR ANY EVENTUALITY
President Wilson Personally to
Direct Such Answers as May
Be Made to Teutons.

T LONDON, May II (by
the Associated Press).-
The Dutch government has
decided to surrender the for
mer German emperor to the
allied and associated pow
ers, according to a dispatch
from The Hague to the
National News.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 10.-The allies can ad-
init of no discussion of their right to
insist upon the terms of the peace
treaty substantially as drafted.
This is the reply to Count Won Brock
dorff- -Rantzau, head of the German
peace delegation, who submitted note
to Premier Clemenceau declaring that
the peace treaty contains demands
which could be borne by no people and
many of them incapable of accomplish
ment.
Huns Send Two Letters.
The German peace delegation declares
in letters sent to the allied and asso-
: ciated powers that on essential points
the basis of the peace of right agreed
upon between the belligerents has been
abandoned.
Two letters have been sent to the
allies, to which replies have been made.
The first letter reads as follows:
THE German peace delegation has
finished the first persual of the peace
conditions which have been handed over
to them. They have had to realize that
on essential points the basis of the
peace of right agreed upon between the
belligerents has been abandoned.
They were not prepared to find that
the promise, explicitly given to the Ger
man people and the whole mankind, is
in this way to be rendered illusory.
THE draft of the treaty contains de-
mands which no nation could endure.
Moreover. our experts hold that many
of them could not possibly be carried
out.
THE German peace delegation will
substantiate these statements in de-
tail and transmit to the allied and
Associated governments their observa-
lions and their material continuously.
7: (Signed)
''BROCKDORFF- FF-RANTZAU."
Reply Made to Germans.
To this letter the following reply
was made today by the allied and as
sociated powers:
The representatives of the allied
and associated powers have received
the statement of objections of the
German plenipotentiaries to the draft
conditions OF peace.
TN reply they wish to remind the
German delegation that they have
formulated the terms OF the treaty
with constant thought of the prin-
Ciples on which the armistice and, the
negotiations for peace were proposed
They can admit no discussion of their
right 10 insist on the terms of the
peace substantially as drafted. They
can consider only such practical sug-
gestions as the German plenipoten-
tiaries may have to submit"
Transmit German League Plan.
The second letter from the German
Representatives reads:
THE German peace delegation has
the honor TO pronounce it's attitude on
the question OF the league of nations
by herewith transmitting a German
program which. in the opinion of the
delegation. contains important sug-
,,stions on the league of nations
problem
The German peace delegation re-
serves for itself the liberty of stat
ing its opinions on the draft of the
allied and associated governments in
detail In the meantime, 1t begs to
call attention to the discrepancy ly-
ing in the fact that Germany is called
On to sign the statute of the league of
nations as an inherent part of the
treaty draft handed to US. and. on the
other hand. is not mentioned among
the states which are invited to Join
the league of nations.
THE German peace delegation begs
10 inquire whether and. II SO. under
what circumstances such invitation
IS intended.
(Signe)
"BRoCKDoRFF-RA F-RANTZAU"
Letter to Be Referred.
The reply of the allies to this is as
follows:
The receipt OF the German pro-
gram of the. league Of nations is ac-
knowledged. Tho program will be
referred to the appropriate commit
Zee of the allied and associated
powers.
The German plenipotenuarieS viii
ind on a re-examination of the cove.
nant of the league of nations that the
'l,,tter Of the admission OF additiona
lnber states has not been overlooked
hot is explicitly provided for in the sec
ond para graph of article one"
Action if Huns Do Not Sign.
1t is understood that among the sub.
gects discussed by the council OF fou,
at its meeting today was the eventually
of Germany refusing to sign the peacs
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