Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-24
SLIGHT CONCESSIONS
HAVE BEEN MADE BY
PEACE COUNCIL TO HUNS

IContlnued From sags ons.l
600 killed, noal],, ! 0OO,OGO dead, Vie
TINS Of tile bfockadeD.
We do not know and indeed We
doubt, were thc delegates of the all ed
and associated powers realize the
inevitable CONSEQUENCES which will
take place N Germany An indus
trial state very thckly popula ted.
closely bound " with the economic
system Of tae world, and reduced to
the obligation to import enormous
quantities of raw material and food
stuffs suddenly finds herself pushed
back IN the phase Of her development
/ which would correspond to her eco.
monte conditions and the members of
/ her population as they were haf It
century ago. Those who will sign This
! treaty will sign the death sentence Of
many millions OF German men. Wonr-
en- and children.
Replies 10 Allies.
| Tho reply of the allied and 1850
| ciated mowers, q approved by the 60 M
| ell of their principal member; on May
%, also made public 1t reads as "ol-
! lows
1.-THE allied and associated powers
I iL''N' l''t anu llt'Nt E~NFil 'f'l u u
attention to the report of t'ln com
/ mission appointed by the German
government to examine the economic
/ conditions of the treaty Of pC7ce.
This report appears to them to
contain a very inadcauate presenta-
! ton of the facts of the case. to be
| marked in parts by great eXaggera-
| ton and to ignore the fundamental
| considerations arising both out of the
| incidence and the results of the war,
| which explain and justify the terms
| that it is sought to impose.
THE German note opens with. the
statement that the industrial re-
| sources of Germany were adequate be-
! fore the war for the nourishment of
a population of $1,000 900, and it
| argues as though this were the to1al
| for which with diminished resources
| she will still be called unDn to pro-
| vide.
| This is not the case. The total
| population of Germany will be re-
duced by about 100000 persons in
the non-German territories, which it
| is proposed to transfer. 1t is the
needs. of this smaller aggregation that
we are called upon to consider.
! Complaint is made in the German
| note that Germany IS required to sur
! render her merchant tonnage. existing
or N course of construction and that
prior claim is made on her ship
| building capacity for limited term
of years. No mention, however, is
made of the fact that considerable
| portion of the smaller tonnage of Ger
many is left to her uniInpaired; and
| 1t seems to have entirely escaped the
| notice Of her spokesman that the sac
! rfice of her larger shipping is the
inevitable and necessary penalty i'm
| posed uDon her for the ruthless cam
paign which. in defiance of all laws
and precedent, she waged Curing The
! last two years of the war upon the
mercantile shipping of the world,
AS a partiay offset against the
| twelve and three-fourths million tons
of shipping sunk, it is proposed to
| transfer four million tons of German
shipping. In other words. the ship
| ping which It Is proposed to take
from Germany constitutes less tina:
| one third of that which was thus
wantonly destroyed
| Germans Caused Ship Shortage.
| The universal shortage of merch-
| ant shipping is the result. not of the
/ terms of peace, but of action of Ger
many, and no surprise can reasonably
| be felt # she is called upon to bear
| a shorc-and II is a very moderate
share-of a loss for which her own
| criminal deeds have been responsible.
/ Great stress is laid on the proposal
that Oh the eastern side of Germany
shall be deprived Of the regions spec
| tally devoted to the production of
wheat and potatoes. This IS true.
But the note fails altogether to OBJ
serve that there is nothing in the
peace treaty to prevent either the con-
| tinued production of those commodi-
| ties in the areas in question, or their
| importation into Germany. on the
contrary, the free admission of these
products of the eastern districts is
provided for during a period of three
years. Moreover, il IS fortunate for
Germany that those regions have lost
none of their productivity owing to
the ravages of war. They have es-
capped the shocking fate which was
dealt out BY the German armies to
| the corresponding territories IN Bel |
GUM and France on the west, and
Poland, Russia, Rumania and Serbia |
on the cast There appears to be no
reason why their produce should not
continue to find q market on German |
soil
Stress is laid upon the proposed
restrictions of the import of phos-
pilates, 1t is however. forgotten thatt
Germany has never produced, but has
ALWAYS imported the phosphates of
which she stands in need, For isl
there anything in the terms of peace
which will prevent or hinder the i'm
portation of phosphates into Germany
in the future Other countries which |
do not produce phosphates are also
compelled to import them in common
with many other products from the
outside; and the only difference in