Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — GERMANS SPLIT AT SEVEN ALL ON SIGNING. [ARTICLE]

GERMANS SPLIT AT SEVEN ALL ON SIGNING.

Seven members of the German cabinet favor signing the amended peace terms, while the other seven are opposed to signing, a dispatch from Berlin says. The remaining seven members are said to be in favor of the treaty as ti now stands. Marcel Hutin, of the Echo de Paris, says a majority of the peace conferees believe Germany will not sign the treaty. Only one of the leaders, Hutm says, expressed the opinion that Germany would sign. This delegate based bis opinion upon the fact that the Germans have knowledge that at a Tecent meeting of the council of four an agreement was reached on the consequences which would follow Germany’s refusal of the peace proffered. . • , They /were aware, the delegate pointed out, that peace then wduld be imposed by force, in accordance with President Wilson’s Baltimore speech, and that orders had been given for an allied force of 600,000 men, supported by heavy artillery of hitherto unrevealed power, to begin an advance on the morning of June 24th. —~ Confronted by such realities, the German government and the national assembly at Weimar, in the delegate’s opinion, would decide to sign the treaty. ,