The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-13
DESPITE LEAGUE EUROPE
TORN BY THIRTY WARS
FRENCH CLAIM GERMANY is
WILFULLY IGNORING TREATY
TERMS WITH ALLIES.
is PoWERLEss TO ACT
Defeated Nations Plead Inability to
Meet the Peace Terms. Germany
Is More Friendly to Belgium Than
France, Fierce Controversy.

| Meet the Peace Terms. Germany
Is More Friendly to Belgium Than
| France. Fierce Controversy.
The first anniversary of the signing
of the treaty of Versailles finds some
thirty wars going on and the league
of nations powerless to prevent the
smallest of them. AS to the treaty
itself none of the allied or associated
powers has yet touched single mark
of the money that Germany was or
dered to pay in cash or bonds.
Preparations have proven the great
stumbling block in the fulfllment by
Germany of the treaty terms. Inc
only provisions of the treaty which
have almost been carried out in full
are those relating to territorial ac-.
QUESTIONS and naval and mercantile
shipping. The fulfillment in these re-
Ispects did not depend upon Germany,
because the territoy and most of the
shipping were already in the hands
of the allies.
Allies Have What They Seized.
Thus Italy was in possession of the
greater part of the Trentino; Bel
gium occupied Eupen and Malmedy;
Great Britain had secured firm holds
lin Mesopotamia, the Palestine dis
trict and Germany's extensive and
valuable Pacific colonies, while ia
nan had attained a dominant position
in the Shantung peninsula and dlvld-
led with Australia the Marshall and
Caroline islands.
On the point really vital to the fu-
ture peace of Europe and the world,
the military disarmament of Germa-
nv, fierce controversy still continues
as to the extent to which Germany
i has carried the stiplation of the
treaty under this head.
l. French Assert Complete Evasion.
The French military authorities
maintain that Germany has evaded
virtually all the disarmament clauses
| to which the Berlin statesmen agreed
at Versailles. This contention is sup
ported by Great Britain, but not with
quite so much heat because of the
destruction of the German sea pow
err. all important to her, while Italy
seems to make no complaint on these
grounds.
Germany maintains that she has
and is doing everything humanity pos
sible to carryaout the military claus
es. Her excuses are eloquent, how
ever, of -the extent to which she is
aware of her failure.
France, foreseeing that the longer
the conditions of the treaty remain
unfulflled, the less grows the ability
of the entente to compel their per-
Torrance, is pressing for their en-
forcement and threatens to repeat
| her extension of the occupied zone
lin default of satisfaction in some
other directions.
Time as Ally. :
Germany, Turkey, Hungary and
| Austria are acting under the convic-
ton that time is on their side. They
cannot conceive conditions in which
their plight can be made worse,
while, as they contemplate the uni
versal European unrest and the in
stability of most European institu-
tions and governments, they felt that,
as the time goes on, conditions may
prove better for them.
Belgium has been treated with far
more consideration by Germany than
has France. This has the appearance
of well conceived policy for concili-
ating Belgium, with an eye to the fu-
ture, commercially and otherwise, a
most important matter to Germany
in view of the deep-rooted hostility
of the French.
! Exen the entente powers now ac-
knowledge that the treaty of Yer
sailles can never be executed in any
thing like it's entirely and admit that
the league of nations cannot stop the
thirty or more petty wars raging
throughout Europe and Asia.