The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-05-20
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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. PIcKARD.

Germany has surrendered again. I'm
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 find
cabinet that would assume the respon-
sibility and perhaps odium of yielding
to the 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:
"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 financial
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
Stacking 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 ultimatum
was teegraphed 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 GeNmany will
carry out the terms of the ultimatum.
Dr. Wirth's reply commits the Ger
mans absolutely to this course. In it
he said:
1.-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 separations 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-
filled 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-miitary
organization. 1t is understood now
the Bavarian authorities have prom
Used that that body shall be disband-
ed Immediately, though another report
has ii that Bavaria is to negotiate d-
rectly with France concerning civilian
guards, offering to place these under
the control of French authorities.
AS for the reparations, Germany can
pay, and she will pay if she Is COM
PEELED to pay. But if there is any
way of wriggling out of paying, Ger
many may be depended on to try it.
Only Ill informed sentimentalists now
take any stock in the German walls OF
poverty and threatened bankruptcy;
and mighty few people have any re-
manning confidence in German good
faith.
Before the end of May, 1t is be-
lieved, the allied supreme council Will
meet again, either in Belgium or Italy.