Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — 7 NOTES FROM HUNS [ARTICLE]

7 NOTES FROM HUNS

Peace Conference Receives Three Additional Messages. \ "v < . t t* Communications Contain Suggestions and Objections With Regard to Pact. u , ; / Paris, M av 15.—Tjjree additional notes received by the peace conference from Count von Brockdorff-Rant-zau make g- total of seven .separate Communications containing objections and suggestions with regard to the treaty ofpeace Here are the sub* Jeers of the various notes: 1. Germany vigorously protests again* the peace.terms, saying they are such be borne by no nation.’’ v ■ . . ,

(io this - the allied and associated governments rewlied that they w n mit no discussion of their right to impose the terms substantially as drafted.') 2. Germany, in sending a program of her own for a league of nations, asks whether and in what circutn-. stances she is to be invited to become a member of the league. (The allied reply to this was that the covenant explicitly provides for admission of additional nations to ' membership, under certain coiffllions.)

3. Germany, in a note described by • those who have read it ns a shrewd appeal to the laboring masses all over J the world, suggests a series of sweeping international reforms affecting ■ labor conditions, wages, hygiene, etc. ' *4. Germany in* word* Tinged witl» bitterness demands the immediate repatriation of all German prisoners of war and interned civilians, saying she cannot think of signing peace before this is done. (Repatriation of German prisoners and after the signing of the treaty, is promised in the pact.) 5. Germany protests against the clauses concerning the Saar valley. Schleswig and the transfer of certain districts to Belgium. 6. Germany requests the right of free interchange of views with the Austrian delegates, now at St. Germainr~"

7. Germany protests against the reparational clauses and submits coun-ter-proposals. A counter-proposal regarding the Saar valley, involving a division of the coal fields, is said to be contained in the fifth note, dealing with territorial clauses.