Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-05-20
Germany, With a New Ministry,
Accepts Allies UItimatum
Internationally.
FRANCE IS STILL SKEPTICAL
Poles and German. Civilians Fighting
In Upper Silesia-Senate Passes
Emergency Tariff BiIl-House
Insists on Small Army
Stacker Lists Given
Out.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARp.

Germany has surrendered again. IN
conditionally and completely, she has
accepted the demands Of the allies, SUI
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 n a
cabinet that would assume the respon-
sibility and perhaps odium of yielding
to the inevitable. After several a
ers had declined the job, DR.. W1rth,
minister of finance in the Fehrenbach
cabinet and leader of the Centrist par
ty, agreed TO become chancellor ana
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:
There is 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
burdens demanded year by year. Re
fusal would, however, mean surrend-
ering the basis of our entire industrial
activities, and, as a 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-
err small majority of 221 to It's, voted
l. l. 1%;voof11na Tho German
governments reply to the ultimatum
was telegraphed at once to Premier
Lloyd George, who wired it to all h
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
20, 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 g."
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
Used that that body shall be disband
ed Immediately, though another report
has it that Bavaria is to negotiate di
rectly with France concerning civilian