Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-05-13

Reichstag BY Vote of 221 to It's
Accepts Allies UItimatum
on War Debt.
new CABINET YIELDS
Teutons Decide TO- Pay 80 Billion In
demnity, to Speed Disarmament J
and to Push Trial Of War
Criminals.
Berlin-Germany has accepted the

Ber1ln-Germany mas accepted the
Allied ultimatum.
The Reichstag by vote Of 221 to 176.
yielded to the final demands Of the al.
lied powers, and, in SO doing agreed
to fuldll the terms Of the treaty Of
Versailles Ito the capacity Of the ma
ton" - <
DR.. With. Centrist leader, finally
succeeded in forming a Coalition cahi-
net, composed Of Centrists, Majority
Socialists and Democrats, which, con-
fronted by grave necessity, speedily
decided that acceptance Of the ultima
tum was the only course. :. US.
In making this announcement to the
Reichstag, the new chancellor asked
for an immediate decision by that body;
and In voting that followed, the gov
eminent was sustained. ~ e.
Definite Reply Demanded.
The Allied ultimatum - required a
definite reply, based on YES or nj"
No conditional reply would be enter
tanned, and the ultimatum was for
mulated to expire on the night Of May
IL.
The total sum, which Germany is
called on to pay 6,750, 100000 pounds
sterling, disarmament must be car
ried out, in accordance with provisions
Of the treaty, and the trial of war
criminals must be put into effect. =.
Numerous otherimportant terms In
which Germany has beer >tesdefault,
will be enforced. s.=z=s
= Noncompliance with the Allied ulti-
matum would have subjected Germany
to occupation by. the Allies of the
Ruhr valley, and: to whatever other
military and naval measures were
deemed advisable.
The new cabinet is generally re-
garded as makeshift, largely unrep-
resentative, yet good enough to accept
the Entente ultimatum, and thus avoid
French advance into the Ruhr.
Or. Wirth's Speech.
In his speech in the Reichstag DR..
Wirth said in part:
acceptance means that we, declare
our readiness to bear in voluntary la.
Dor the heavy financial burdens de.
manded year by year. Refusal would,
however, mean surrendering the basis
of our entire industrial activities, and,
as a consequence, dismemberment of
our economic body, already so greatly
weakened, and the Stacking of our en-
tire industrial life. "But the effects
might be even more terrible for our
political existence and our realm.
For these reasons the government
accepts the ultimatum. We know that
acceptance, by reason of the place Ger
many will occupy in the economy of
the world, will entail the gravest conse.
Quences. The responsibility for this
falls on the Allies.
No obscurity.
But there is one point concerning
which there must be, no obscurity. 1t
would be useless to say yes without
the resolution to do our utmost to meet
the obligations imposed upon us. By
acceptance we believe We will remove
the imminent threats of occupation of
the Ruhr.
"The treaty, which casts a heavy
burden upon us, entails for the Allied
governments sacred duties, as the Brit.
ish premier himself expressly acknow.
lodged recently. Ladies and gentle.
men, the new government, after refec.
ton, advises you in all confidence to
accept the ultimatunl."