The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-06-19
PEACE IS UP TO HUNS
The Allies Answer is In and Foe
Has Week to Decide, Time
Being Extended.

Beng Extenoeo.
Versailles, June I6.-The reply o
the Allied and associated govern
ments TO Germany's counter propos
ais to the Peace Treaty and revise'
copy of the Peace Treaty tonight arr
in the hands. of Count Won Brock
dorff- Rantzau, who is on his way t.
Weimar, there to present to the Ger
man national assembly the final wore
of the victors in the war.
Five days was the allotted period
originally fixed for the Germans tc
answer yes or no to the demands OF
the Allies. But two days additional
have been granted because of the in
sistence of the German delegation
that not sufficient time had been al
lowed for proper consideration of the
revised terms This will extend the
time limitation to Monday, June 20.
The principles of the original con-
ditions have been vigorously upheld,
as establishing peace of justice, but
certain notifications in detail and
many explanations of the effect Of
execution are made. The reply is in
two parts-a general covering letter
and seriatim discussions of the gen.
eral counter proposals. The changes
include:
A plebiscite for Upper Silesia, with
guarantee of coal from that territory.
Frontier rectifications in West
Prussia.
Omission of the third zone in the
Schlesweg plebiscite.
Temporary increase of the German
Army from one hundred thousand to
two hundred thousand men.
Declaration of the intention to sub
NIT within a month after signature a
list of those accused of violation of
the laws and customs of war.
Offer to cooperate with German
commission on reparations and to re-
ceive suggestions for discharging the
obligation.
Certain detailed notifications in
the finance, economic and ports and
waterways clauses, including aboli-
ton of the proposed KEEL Canal
Commission.
Assurance of membership in the
League of Nations in the early flu !
ture if Germany fulfills her obliga-
tiQns.
Ire covering letter is from Mt.
Clemenceau, president of the Peace
Conference, to Count Won Brock
dorff-Rantzau, president of the Ger
man delegation. In this letter NJ. '
Clemenceau says:
"The Allied and associated powers
have given the most earnest consid-
Grafton to the observation of the
German delegates on the draft Treaty
of Peace. The reply protests against
the peace on the ground that it con-
flicts with the terms upon which the
armistice of November II, 1918, was
signed and that it is peace of vio-
lence, and not peace of justice. The
protest of the German delegation
shows that they fail to understand
the position in which Germany stands
today. They seem to think that Ger
many has only to make sacrifices in
order to attain peace as if this were
but the end of some struggle for ter
ritory and power The Allied and
associated powers, therefore, feel it
necessary to begin their reply by a
clear statement of the Judgment of
the world, which has been forged by
practically the whole of civilized
mankind.
I'm the view of the Allied and asso-
ciated powers, the war which began
August 1, 1914, was the greatest
crime against humanity and freedom
of the people that any nation calling
itself civilized, has ever consciously
committed. For many years the rul-
ers of Germany, true to the Prussan
tradition, strove for position of
dominance in Europe. They were
not satisfied with that growing pros
perity and influence to which Ger
many was entitled, and which all
other nations were willing to accord
her; they required that they should
be able to dictate and -tyrannize over
a subservient Europe, as they dictat-
ed and tyrannized over a subservient
Germany.
She sought to SOW hostility and
suspicion instead of friendship be-
tween nations. The Germans de-
veloped system of espionage and
intrigue through which they were
enabled to stir up. international re-
bellion, and even to make secret Of
fensiye preparations within the terri
tory of their neighbors whereby they
might, when the moment came, strike
them down with greater certainty
and ease. They kept Europe in a fer l.,
ment by threats of violence, and