River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-06-19
GIVEN SEVEN DAYS
TO CHOOSE COURSE
GERMAN REFUSAL WILL. AUTO
MATIcALLY TERMINATE EX-
ISTlNG ARMlSTICE.
SLIGHT CHANGES IN TREATY
Letter From Premier CIemenceau to
President of Foe Delegation Con-
tains Severe Criticism of Ger
many Before and During War.

Paris, June 17.-The final reply Of
the Allied and associated powers to
the conditions of peace handed to the
Germans at Versailles May 27 allows
the Germans seven days to accept or
to refuse the treaty as it stands. If
they accept peace will be signed at
once; if they do not accept the armis-
tice will terminate Monday and the
powers will take such steps as may
be necessary to enforce their terms.
List of Changes.
A plebiscite for upper Silesia with
guarantees of coal from that territory
Frontier Notifications in West Pres
STA.
Commission of the third zone in the
Schleswig plebiscite.
Temporary increase of the German
army from 100000 to 100000 men.
Declaration of the intentions to SUBJ
NIT within month of signature list
of those accused of violation of the
laws and customs of war.
Offer to cooperate with a German
commission on reparation and to re-
ceive suggestions for discharging the
obligation.
Certain detailed notifications in
the finance, economic and ports and
waterways clauses, including abolition
of the proposed Kiel canal commits
sion.
Assurance of membership in the
league of nations in the early future
II Germany fulfills her obligations.
CIemenceau's Letter.
The covering letter is from Premier
Clemenceau, president of the Peace
conference, to Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau, president of the German dele
cation. In this letter M. Clemenceau
says:
''The Allied and associated powers
have given the most earnest consider
alton to the observation of the Ger
man delegates on the draft treaty of
peace. The reply protests against the
peace on the ground that it conflicts
with the terms upon which the armi-
stice of Nov. IL, 1918, was signed and
that it is 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 today. They
seem to think that Germany has only
to make sacrifices in order to attain
peace as If this were but the end of
some mere struggle for territory and
power. The Allied and associated
governments, therefore, feel it neces-
sary to begin their reply by a clear
statement of the judgment of the
world, which has been forged by prac-
tically the whole of civilized mankind
Crime Against Humanity.
"In the view Of the Allied and asso-
ciated powers the war which began
on Aug. II, 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 Prusslan
tradition, strived for a position of
dominance in Europe. They were not
satisfied with that growing prosperity
and influence to which Germany was
entitled and which all other nations
were willing to accord her; they re-
Quired that they should be able to
dictate and tyrannize over a subserv-
dent Europe as they dictated and tyr
anniZed over a SubSeryient Germany"