The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-29
BLACK PICTURE OF
 HUNLANDS FUTURE
Head of German Peace Delegation Says Millions Would Starve Under Peace Pact-AlIies Reply--The
 Result of Own Behavior"

Paris. May 23.- The note from Count yon Brockdorf- Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation at Versailles, regarding the economic eff feet of the peace treaty, dated at Yer sailles, May iS. was made public to- day His note reads:
 "In the course of the last two gen. erations, Germany has become trans formed from an agricultural state to an industrial states. As long as she was an agricultural state, Germany could feed 40.000.000 inhabitants. In her quality of an industrial state she could ensure the nourishment of a population of 67,000,000 In 1913 the importation of food stuffs amounted in round figures to 12,000,OO0 tons. Before the war a total of 15,000,000 persons provided for their expense in Germany by foreign trade and by na- vigation, either in a direct or an indi- rect manner by the use of foreign raw material
 Loss of Ships and Colonies.
 @According to the conditions of the treaty of peace, Germany will sur render her merchant tonnage and ships in course of construction suita- ble for overseas trade. German ship building yards will build for five years in the first instance tonnage destined for the allied and associated govern ments.
 "Germany will, moreover, renounce her colonies, all her overseas posses sions; all her interests and securities in the allied and associated countries and in their colonies. dominions and protectorates; will as an installnent of the payment for part of the repara- tion be subject to liquidation and may be exposed to any economic war meas ures which the allied and associated powers think fit to maintain or to take during the years of peace.
 By the putting into force of the territorial clauses of the treaty of peace Germany would lose to the east the most important regions for the UNOuuttaOU Ol NOAH anu HObtttCOO' which would be equivalent to the loss of 21 per cent of the total crop of those articles of food. Moreover, the intensity of our agricultural produc- ton will diminish considerably. On the one hand, the importation of cer- tain raw material indispensable for the production of manure, such as phosphates, would be hindered; on the other hand this industry would suffer like all other industries from lack of coal.
 At the end of a very short time Germany would, therefore, not be il a position to give bread and work tC her numerous millions of inhabitants who would be reduced to earning theil Iivlihood by navigation and by trade Those persons would have to emi grate, but that is a material impossi bility, all the more so because man! countries. and the most importan ones, will oppose any German immi grafton. Moreover, hundreds of thou sands of Germans expelled from tn, territories of the powers at war witt Germany, from the colonies and ter ritories which Germany must sur render, will return to their nativ' land.
 Great Catastrophe Predicted.
 "The putting into execution of th' conditions of peace would, therefore logically bring about the loss of sev eral millions of persons in Germany This catastrophe would not be long il coming about, seeing that the healtl of the population has been broker down during the war by the blockade and during the armistiee by the az gravation of the blockade of famine No help, however important or ovel however long period it might be dis tributed, would prevent these deathl en masse. Peace would impose ol Germany numerous human sacrifices that this war of four years and half did not demand of her prid' f1,T50,000 killed, nearly one million dead, victims of the blockade.)
 "We do not know, and indeed W, doubt, whether the delegates of tn, allied and associated powers realiz, Ehe inevitable consequences whicl will take place in Germany. An in Eussrial state very thickly populated