The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-03-14
ALLIES W|LLDESTROY
HUN BIG WAR GUNS
ALLIES LEAVE THEM EQUIPMENT
FOR ONLY TWENTY ARMY
DIVISIONS. II
WILL SIGN PEACE PACT FIRST
Teutons Must Pay Forty Billion Dol
lars as eparation-German War
ships Will Be Apportioned
Among the victors.

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Paris.-When President Wilson ar
rives in Paris this week he will find
the preliminary peace treaty ready
for his persual and sanction. The
five subcommissions which have been
preparing five different phases of the
peace terms have finished their la
bors covering military, naval, bound.
airy separations and economic phases
and conditions to be imposed upon
Germany. -,
Peace Before League.
President Wilson is expected to go
over the preliminary peace terms be-
fore dealing further with the league
Of nations covenant, as it is agreed
unanimously that peace must be es-
tablished with Germany at the ear
Hest possible moment in order to en-
place bulwark against bolshevism
and permit world trade and industry
to resume functioning. Regardless of
attacks which may be launched
against the league it is believed here
the president will not be sidetracked
into reconsidering the covenant un-
til after the preliminary peace terms
have been drawn up and accepted by
the allies and the associated powers
and are ready for delivery to the
German delegates.
The president, it is anticipated,
will consider first. the military terms
of preliminary peace. NJ
| To Destroy Big Guns.
These provide that all war materi-
al which Germany manufactured and
accumulated during the war shall be
seized by the allies or destroyed,
except the equipment necessary for
20 divisions All the larger ordnance
will be seized and destroyed, includ.
( ing the 42-centimeter howitzers and
15-inch naval guns which shelled
Dunkirk and FRrnes, and the big
;; Bertha which bombarded Paris. Thou
sands of extra machine guns, which
were feverishly manufactured dur
ing the close of the war, will be
: destroyed, as we'll as flame throwers
mine throwers, trench mortars, as
phyxiating gas projectors and al
other new chemical and diabolica
forms of warfare invented by the
+ enemy.
Control of the German aviation
e service will be included in the mill
tary terms. go
1t is undecided whether Zeppelin'
will be handled in the military O.
naval terms of preliminary peace, bu
. in any event the size of the airshil
fleet will be strictly regulated t
T. prevent the enemy gaining aeria
u supremacy.
: Only few government arsenal
r will be permitted to manufacture mu
y nitions.
a. The military terms will provide-th
D. army shall be divided into corps
n probably numbering five and scat
S. tered over Germany-each corps CON
IS prising three infantry and one CO
d valry division. The allies frankly &C
t. nit this standing army will be pei
n mitted only that Germany may kee
order internally. No troops may b
modified on the western or easter
| ITOulltI WlIuOuL SOHoCAC VI IhC oliiS
D powers.
:. Apporton German Fleet. .
lie The naval terms of the peace wer
taken up next and have been agree
upon, so the president will merel
have to look at them. Followin
If French criticism of the British pla
:, to sink the entire German fleet tn
70 British admiralty has receded frol
~ this position and prepared to Apo
- ton the vessels amoug the allie
NJ c upon basis of the number of ship
:. each power lost.
.e This will enable France to regal
~ it's prewar naval position lost throug
8 the fact that all it's .shipyards wei
ier turned into artillery or shell plant
III so there was no new constructio
during the war.
The United States and Japan eac
will receive one large German wa
IT. ship, it is expected. A certain nun
au Der of destroyers, gunboats and ligl
in cruisers will be returned to German
v. and other destroyers will go to Be
rk GUM, Rumania, Poland and the otht
new states created with seaports a
ar tached
az Ali submarines will be destroye
including the submersibles construc
ed and owned by every nation of tt
world as it has been definitely d
cided the submarine can not
% used longer as a means Of nav
m warfare. The ucase will inclut
)e- avav Pritian