Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-05-19
Germany, With a New Ministry,
Accepts Allies UItimatun
Internationally.
france IS Still SKEPTICAL
Poles and German Civilians Fighting
in Upper Silssia-Senate Passes
Emergency Tariff Bill-House
Insists on Small Army
Stacker Lists Given
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BY EDWARD w. PicKARD.

Germany has surrendered again. Un-
conditionally and completely, she has
accepted the demands of the allies, SD
preme council, and has promised to
carry out the terms of the ultimatum
without delay.
There had been little doubt Of this
result, but the trouble was to find a
cabinet that would assume the respon-
sibility and perhaps odium of yielding
to 6he inevitable. After several lead
ers had declined the job, DR.. Wirth,
minister of finance in the Fehrenbach
cabinet and leader of the Centrist par
ty, agreed to become chancellor and
foreign minister, selected the rest of
the cabinet and had it acquiesce in
the demands of the allies. Then he
went before the reichstag and said,
among other things:
no possibility for us other
than acceptance or rejection. The vic
tors have decided. Acceptance means
that we declare our readiness to bear
in voluntary labor the heavy financial
burdens demanded year by year. Re
fusal would, however, mean Surrend-
ering the basis Of our entire industrial
activities, and, as consequence, dis
memberment of our economic body, al
ready so greatly weakened, and the
shackling of our entire industrial life.
Thereupon the reichstag by the rath-
er small majority of 221 to 175, voted
to accept the ultimatum. The German
governments reply to the ultfmatum
was teIegraphed at once to Premier
Lloyd George, who wired it to all the
governments concerned. He then an
nounced it to the house Of commons,
which received the news with cheers
In France satisfaction over the sur
render of Germany was lessened by
the smallness of the majority vote in
the reichstag and the feeling that the
Wirth ministry cannot last long The
French are still skeptical of Berlin's
good faith, and propose to. maintain
their forces on the Rhine at sufficient
strength to occupy the Ruhr until it
becomes evident that Germany will
carry out the terms of the ultimatum
Dr. Wirth's reply commits the Ger
mans absolutely to this course. In it
he said:
'"The German government is fully
resolved first, to carry out without re-
serve or condition its obligations as de-
fined by the reparations commission. !
Second, to accept and carry out
without reserve or condition the guar
antees in respect of those obligations
prescribed by the reparations commits
sion.
''Third, to carry out without reserve
or delay the measures OF military,
naval-and aerial disarmament notified
to the German government by the al
lied powers in their note of January
%. 1921, those overdue to be completed
at once and the remainder by the pre-
scribed date.
'Fourth to carry out without re-
serve or delay the trial of war GRIM
inals and to execute the other unful-
filed portions of the treaty referred to
In the first paragraph of the note of
the allied governments of May s."
The chief stumbling block, hitherto,
IN the process of disarmament of Ger
many has been the determination Of
Bavaria to maintain its civil-military
organization. It is understood now
the Bavarian authorities have prom
ised that that body shall be disband-
ed Immediately, though another report
has it that Bavaria is to negotiate di-