Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — SCHEIDEMANN IN PACT PROTEST [ARTICLE]

SCHEIDEMANN IN PACT PROTEST

Gorman Chancellor Attacks Al* Had Terms in Address ■ to the Assembly. ■ • 1 WORSE THAN BREST-LITOVSK w Refers to Semi-Official and Non-Of« ficiol Reports l-Yom Pariit—lie. dares Germany Cries Out in l»o spate—Food In Received. Welmnr, March 28. —Speaking In the national assembly, Chancellor Philipp Scheldemann said send-ofllclal and nonottlctal reports were Increasing dally that "fresh aggravation* In the peace conditions are expected to be announced; that unprecedented sums In compensation are to be imposed j that wide stretches of purely German territory are to be tairen, and that crushing restrictions are to be Imposed In financial and military mutter*. "Assuredly a large part of these ah leged conditions,” the chancellor con* tlnued, "are Invented In order to cre« ate an atmosphere which will surtocat* protest even against a peace of via hence. “Our peoples, who were 111-treated. by the armistice more cruelly than by the war, recognize this method. A cry, not of chauvinist nature, but of tiie deepest despair, which appeals tc the highest—to the conference ol humanity—ls going up throughout Germany.” | Appeals for United Front. Herr Scheldemann said the against the alleged conditions were] due to patriotic fears. The governs ment knew thl? loyalty to the was the most valuable possession en-<| trusted to its sontrol and would notj permit It to be Intrenched upon ad home or abroad. The chancellor apJ pealed to the people to stand adding: "The so-called radicals of the left) have np right to protest against actß of oppression, for we are responsible under the treaties of Brest-Lltovsk and! Bucharest.” Declaring that Great Britain had re-* jerted a proposal to establish an In-* ternational tribunal to Investigate sponslblllty for the war, Herr Scheldt mann said: “Even if Germany were responsible for all the crimes she Is accused of* has she thereby lost the right to pro-J test against fetters? Fetters which throttle her? Spa? Spa was worse than Brest-Lltovsk, because Spa show*! that it learned nothing from Brest-LI-J tovsk.”

[The agreement of Spa referred to by Scheidemann is the one involving; the delivery of German shipping to Hie allies and food relief for Germany.] Food Arrival Timely. Berlin, March 28.—The arrival at German ports of the first American food ships was just In time to meets the crisis in the food situation. The potato ration in Greater Berlin) was reduced this week to three pound* and no fresh meat is available. With the arrival of the ships and tpe conference of German financial experts at Weimar preparatory to goings to Versailles Sunday, Germany seem* to feel that peace Is nearer than at any other time. The feeling of depression which had! been growing In every part of the country at the continued disorder* and the Increasing Spartacan riots lifted slightly at the news that concrete results finally were at hand after -much waiting.