New-York tribune., 1919-05-29
Berlin Insists on In
deniliGcation for
Blockade Loss and
Return ofCoEoilies
SiIesia (ession
Flatly Rejected
Asks Allies TO Evac-
uate i'm e Mosasilss
Would john League


Press ).-Germny's counter proposals
to the terms of the peace treaty pre-
sented to her plenipotentiaries at YER
sallles include the following points, ac-
cording to an unofficial summary
available to-day:
claim for 12,S5000O,000 marks
(S3,212,5Oo,O00) for damage by tho
Entente blockade is presented to tbs
Allied and associated powers.
Germany offers to disarm all Of
her battleships on condition that
part of her mercantile fleet be re-
stored to her;
She proposes that there be no ter
ritorial changes without consulta-
tion of the populations affected;
The cession of upper suesia and
the claims to East Prussia, West
Prussia and Momel are emphatically
rejected;
1t is stipulated that Danzig shall
become free port, and rhe River
Vistula neutralized,
Occupied territory as to be evacc-
ated within six months;
If the league OF nations is estab-
lished with Germany as a member
Germany shall continue to admins
ter her colonies in accordance with
the principles of the league a. its
mandatory;
Germany offers TO pay 2O.000, ,00o.-
600 marks ($5,000,0O0, ,000) IN gold by
the year 1926 as indemnity and n
make annual payments from 1927
onward to a total not in excess OF
100000, 100000 marks (S25,00GO0o,-
000) in gold
Ask Colonial Commission
The German delegation's proposal re-
garding Germanys former colonies
points out that an absolutely innar-
tial settlement of all colonial claims
was promised in No Of the fourteen
points contained in President Wilson's
message to Congress, January g. 1918.
and claims that IAN impartial settle
ment presupposes hearing of both
SIDES before a decision is taken. and
such hearing has not taken place"
While appealing to the promise. and
especially TO the principle that the
regulation Of colonial claims should
take place with due regard equally to
the interest OF governments and the
governed says the German note, the
proposal is made to refer colonial
questions 10 a special committee.
This committee. TO be formed o.
mandatories and experts of both par
ties, shall take Is the subject Of It's
delberation the aforementioned point
., and other points mentioned in
President Wilson's -four speeches o.
1918 referring to the subject, Secre-
tary Lansing note of November
1913, the article Of the. draft Of the
peace conditions relating to colonial
questions, and section Of the Ger
man league Of nations proposal. as well
as the interests of the populations and
the governments concerned
Would Rule Possessions
The proposal argues the demand that
Germany renounce her overseas pos
sessions cannot be reconciled with the
armistlce terms, and holes the view
that Germany's claim to the restora-
ton of ner colonies is just.
Germany, it says. IS ready, should
a league of nations be formed in which
she is Immediately elected with equal
rights, to carry on the administration
OF her colonies in accordance with the
principles OF the LEAGUE of nations and
IN given circumstances as its manda-
tary."
Point ) in President Wilson's four
teen JOINTS for peace was Is follows:
Free. oDen-minded and absolutely ;.s.
partial adjustment OF all coio7,a
claims, based uron stricf oh sor1af. "a
of the principle thot r. ic+c..alai,,,-
all such questions Of sovereirntv To
interests of the 0on4lation concerned
must have equal weight with the ea.,i-
table claims of tic government whos,
title is to be determined.
Demands Fourteen Points
The counter proposals VIII. in .he
opening section, argue for the exist.
ence Of Germany contractual ,i~nt 20
q peace based on President Wilson
fourteen points, because the Entente
nations agreed to peace on that basis
and neither Mir Wilson nor tire repre-
sentative OF any other Allied Govern
ment has demanded since that peace
be established on any other basis
Thus, it IS argued, an abandonment a.
the fourteen points by the Entente
would be breach of legal agreement
and dictated peace would be hreaci
of a given promise.
The second section viii deal with. I'll,
contradiction between the draft Of th.
treaty and previous assurances from
Entente statesmen and the genera
ideals of international right.
The counter proposals viii dcciar,
that the terms of peace completely ic
more the fact that Germsny has re
placed an 'imperiahstic and irvesnon
sible government by strictly demo