The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-07-10
BERLIN ACCEPTS
ALLIED DEMAND
ENJOYS Sign With Protest Dis
armament Note.
PENALTY RESTS WITH ENTENTE
Premiers Do Not Insist on Their "Con-
sent" to Allied Occupation of Fur
ther Territory if Pledge is Not Kept.

Spar, Belgium, July 10.-Germany's
delegates signed an engagement ac-
cepting the terms of the allied note
relative to disarmament.
This action was taken under protest
by the German representatives.
The allied note, which amounted
virtually to an ultimatum, demanded
the Germans accept the terms present
ed.
(The demands were for Germany to
cut her military forces to 100000 by
October l and to 100000 by January l.
In case of noncompliance the allies
threatened to occupy Ruhr or other
German territory beyond the present
occupied zone)
The Germans protested in signing
the engagement, the treaty of Versail-
les did not oblige them to acquiesce
in further territorial occupations eX-
Cept for failure to fulfill the treaty
terms regarding reparatiOnS.
The protest was submitted in writ
ing
When the German delegates inform
cd the conferences they were ready to
sign, but were not empowered to
agree to allied occupation if the dis
armament conditions were not fulfill
ed, the allied representatives confer
red among themselves. Lloyd George,
the British premier, as spokesman,
told the Germans:
1--WE do not ask your agreement to
the penalties we reserve the right to
take in case of nOn-eXecutiOn of your
engagements We simply warn you
Of our Intentions 1t is notification we
have given you, purely and simply, of
the measures you may expect if you
do not disarm under the conditions
specified.
ITO these conditions we ask your
acceptance. so as to adopt them with
common accord. To sum up, the pen
altieS are for the allies alone, while
we are making disarmament a two
sided matter"
The conference took up the question
Of German prosecutions of the war
guilty Immediately after the disarma-
ment protocol was signed, but refer
red the question to experts for clari-
fcation of certain details which ii was
expected would be completed at once.
Carl Heinze, German vice chancel-
>.ar and minister of Justice, tol6 hes
ne had begun preparations for the
prosecutions, but had encountered
egal difficulties and no arrests had
yet been made.
The decision of the German cabi-
net to obey the allied demand was
reached at an early session, the vote
being unanimous The vote was TAX
en- after a telephone communication
with reichstag leaders in Berlin ap-
prJving the acceptance and communi-
eating the desire of the reichstag and
narty leaders for the cabinet to use
It's own Judgment.
A unanimous decision also was tax
en- by the cabinet the allies should be
informed Germany could not accept
these stipulations concerning possible
occupation of the Ruhr and other ter
ritories. provided the, disarmament
was not executed according to the al
| lied judgment.
It was held the German cabinet was
precluded by constitutional reasons
from entering into any such arrange
ment without the authority of parlla-
| ment. Hence, the allies were request
ed to strike this paragraph from their
| demand, it being said otherwise the
Germans might not be able to con-
| inue the conference.