The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-18
Bulk of Province of POsen
Given to Polish
Nation
PLEAS OF GERMANY
MADE IN VAIN
Erzberger Tries to Remind the United
States of Assistance Germany Gave
During Civil War-Country Said to
be Suffering from Hunger.

PARIS, Feb. l8.-The shew armistice
terms, which the Germans have accepted,
were signed Sunday afternoon at Treves,
Marshal Foch reported to the supreme
war council yesterday The new doeu-
ment keeps in effect all the old terms
and adds some new ones, it is understood.
The various suggestions that had been
made in German and diplomatic circles
Co the effect that sitter armistice terms
would not be acceptable to Germany"
amounted to nothing more tangible, when
the time for signing arrived, than the pre-
sentation of the two notes to Marshal
Foch by Matthias Erzberger, head of the
German armistice commission.
These notes contained several requests,
including one that German prisoners of
war should be released and another that
economic intercourse between Germany
and the occupied German territories
should be permitted The Germans also
asked the privilege of using their mer-
camille marina for various purposes.
The most important change in the
terms involve the Poles In this new
stipulation the allies require of Germany
that she cease all offensive operations
against the Poles, and there is also
drawn a new line of demarkation between
Germany and Poland, the new boundary
extending from a point on the old border
east of Grosser Neudorf, north of Exin,
north of Czarnikau, 'west of Birnbaum
and Bentschen, thence to Wollstein, LISA
and north of Wieruszow and thence along
the frontier between Silesia and Poland.
This line of demarkation gives to Po-
land a considerable part of the German
government of Posen
1t was provided by the allied terms that
the armstice must be renewed for an
indeterminate period with fixed delay
OF three days for the denunciation of it.
The old terms of the arnistiee arctic be
carried out completely by Germany.
The German delegates reached Treves
on Friday morning and Marshal Foch ar
rived at noon The first discussion was
at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon and was be-
gym by Marshal Foeh. Matthias Erzberg-
CT spoke first for the Germans
Among the declarations of Herr Erz-
berger at Treves, according to Berlin
despatch published in the Temps, was
one addressed to the American representa-
| tive on the arInistice commission that
Germany went to the aid of the United
States from 1862 to 1865 during the great
| economic crisis, furnishing money, clothes
shoes, and machinery. If the United
States came to the aid of Germany today
more than fifty years afterward, Erzberg
er said she could give Germany food and
| raw materials against German loan, and
at the same time would Se doing a good
stroke of business.
| Erzberger said Germany was suffering
from hunger. Physicians had made know
! the number of victims of the blockade
More than half million men. women anC
children had died from exhaustion or tn,
results of lessened capacity to resist dis
ease, he said. He asserted that Bismarcl
| Immediately gave suceor to Paris i'll 1877
after the Franco-Prussian war, and CAV,
warning that Bolshevism would resuE
from hunger in Germany.
+ Erzberger protested against what h
termed the oppression against everything
German in Alsace- Lorraine and agains
the encouragement given by the entent
ito the Polish appetite for conquest
Germany, Erzberger asserted, had az
cepted President Wilson's fourteen point
for peace, and the allies also had accepte
them. Article II, he said. did not Civ
to the allies the right to forbid the Gel
man people from defending themselve
against such encroachments as the Pole
were making.