Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-16
Copyright, 1920, by the Chicago
Daily News Foreign Service.)
What Treaty Provides

Two drafts Of the proposed treaty
are appended to this letter. Both
are in French. The first draft,
which appears to be favored by the
kaiser, reads as follows, in free
translation:
Their majesties, the emperors Of
all the Russias and of Germany, in
order to insure the maintenance of
peace in Europe, have drawn up the
following articles Of a defensive
treaty of alliance:
"Article 1. In case one Of the
two empires is attacked by a Euro
pean power it's ally will aid with all
it's land and sea forces. His majesty,
the emperor of all the Russias will
take the necessary steps to acquaint
France with this agreement and to
gain it's association as an ally.
ARTICLE 2. The high contracting
parties obligate themselves not to
conclude a separate peace with any
common adversary.
article 8. The present treaty will
remain in force until year after
notice of abrogation has been given.
Secret article: The high contract
ing parties agree to make common
cause in case acts by one of them
during the war, such as the delivery
of coal to a belligerent, is regarded
by a third power as a violation of
the right of neutrals. 1t follows
from the terms of the first line of
article one that Germany will not
associate herself in any action which
might implicate her in hostilities
against Russia
The second draft of the treaty is
similar but differs in phraseology.
The preamb BILE reads:
Their majesties, the emperor of
all the Russias, and the emperor of
Germany, in order to localize as
much as possible the RussoJapanese
war. have drawn up the following
articles Of q defensive treaty of al
lance.
article 1. In case one Of the two
empires is attacked by European
power it's ally will aid with all it's
land and sea forces. The two allies
in that case will make common cause
in order to summon France to live
up to the obligations which she has
assumed by the terms of the Franco
Russian treaty of alliance"
Article two is the same as in the
first draft. Article three reads:
This engagement is binding also
in case the acts of one of the two
high contracting parties during the
war, such as the delivery of coal to
g belligerent, is declared after the
war by a third power to be a viola
ton Of the right of neutrals."
In the German kaiser's comment on
the proposed treaty of alliance be-
tween Russia and Germany contained
in letters sent to Nicholas 1 in 1904
we read the kaiser's ambition to ap-
ply the treaty more generally than
the car had intended. He wants it
to be drawn up for the maintenance
of peace in Europe, rather than for
the specific purpose of helping local
ize the Russo-Japanese war. He en-
phatically refuses to let the car in
form France of the clause that Rus
STA and Germany would act together
in the event a third power thought
it's neutrality affected by the furnish
ing of coal.
This matter of coa1ing is directly
allied to events in the Russo-Japa
nese war. England by it's treaty
with Japan agreed to observe a strict
neutrality in case of war which in
volved Japan. AS owner of nearly
all the important coaling stations,
England kept coal from Russia's
ships on the ground that the treaty
forbade her supplying them. Yet ad-
miral Rosdostvensky was enabled to
steam from the Baltic to the Sea of
Japan because Germany supplied coal
to the Russian ships enroute. This
gives especial significance to the
clause regarding the delivery of coal,
for it is a direct hit at Great Britain.
Great Britain actually interdicted
supplies of coal going to the Russian
fleet, as the kaiser's brief letter of
December shows. The kaiser asks
"Nicky" to fish or cut bait. Russias
protest that it would not take ad-
vantage of any neutrality apparently